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of the European Union L series
2025/696 4.4.2025
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2025/696
of 3 April 2025
amending the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/672 concerning certain emergency
measures relating to outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in Hungary and Slovakia
(notified under document C(2025) 2169)
(Only the German, Hungarian and Slovak texts are authentic)
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on
transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health (‘Animal Health
Law’)(1), and in particular Article 259(1), point (c), thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Foot and mouth disease is an infectious viral disease affecting animals in the mammal order of Artiodactyla and can
have a severe impact on the concerned animal population and the profitability of farming causing disturbance to
movements of consignments of those animals and products thereof within the Union and exports to third countries.
(2) In the event of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in animals of listed species, there is a serious risk of the spread
of that disease to other establishments keeping animals of listed species.
(3) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687(2) supplements the rules for the control of the listed diseases
referred to in Article 9(1), points (a), (b) and (c), of Regulation (EU) 2016/429, and defined as category A, B and C
diseases in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882(3). In particular, Articles 21 and 22 of
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687 provide for the establishment of a restricted zone in the event of an outbreak
of a category A disease, including foot and mouth disease, and for certain measures to be applied therein.
Article 21(1) of that Delegated Regulation provides that the restricted zone is to comprise a protection zone, a
surveillance zone, and, if necessary, further restricted zones around or adjacent to the protection and surveillance
zones.
(4) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/672(4)was adopted on the basis of Regulation (EU) 2016/429, and
it lays down certain emergency measures, relating to outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in establishments keeping
bovine animals in the County of Győr-Moson-Sopron in Hungary, close to the border with Austria, and in the region
of Trnava in Slovakia, close to the border with Hungary. More particularly, Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/672
provides for the establishment of protection, surveillance and further restricted zones in Hungary and Slovakia, and
a surveillance zone and further restricted zones in Austria, in accordance with Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687,
following those outbreaks, and that those zones must comprise at least the areas listed in the Annex to that
Implementing Decision. Due to the severity of the epidemiological situation, it also provides for certain restrictions
on movements of animals of susceptible species.
(1) OJ L 84, 31.3.2016, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/429/oj.
(2) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687 of 17 December 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European
Parliament and the Council, as regards rules for the prevention and control of certain listed diseases (OJ L 174, 3.6.2020, p. 64, ELI:
http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2020/687/oj).
(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 of 3 December 2018 on the application of certain disease prevention and
control rules to categories of listed diseases and establishing a list of species and groups of species posing a considerable risk for the
spread of those listed diseases (OJ L 308, 4.12.2018, p. 21, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2018/1882/oj).
(4) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/672 of 31 March 2025 concerning certain emergency measures relating to outbreaks
of foot and mouth disease in Hungary and Slovakia and repealing Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/613 (OJ L, 2025/672, 2.4.2025,
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2025/672/oj).
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(5) Since the adoption of Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/672, Slovakia and Hungary have informed the Commission
of the confirmation of new outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in establishments keeping bovine animals. These
new outbreaks are located in the Bratislava region in Slovakia, close to the border with Austria and in the County of
Győr-Moson-Sopron in Hungary, close to the border with Slovakia. In accordance with Delegated Regulation
(EU) 2020/687, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria, in cooperation together, have established new restricted zones,
which comprise protection, surveillance zones and further restricted zones in Slovakia and Hungary, and a
surveillance zone and a further restricted zone in Austria, where the disease control measures laid down in that
Delegated Regulation are applied in order to prevent the further spread of that disease to other parts of those
Member States, or to other Member States.
(6) Therefore, the areas included in those restricted zones should be defined, both spatially and temporally, in the Annex
to Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/672, in order to prevent the further spread of the disease, as well as to prevent
any unnecessary disturbance to trade within the Union, and to avoid any unjustified barriers to trade being imposed
by third countries. Accordingly, regionalisation needs to be updated at Union level, and the areas identified as
protection, surveillance and further restricted zones in Slovakia and Hungary, and as surveillance and further
restricted zones in Austria, should be set out in the Annex to this Decision, and the duration of those measures
fixed, in collaboration with those Member States.
(7) The Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/672 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(8) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants,
Animals, Food and Feed,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
The Annex of Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/672 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Implementing
Decision.
Article 2
This Decision is addressed to Hungary, the Republic of Austria and the Slovak Republic.
Done at Brussels, 3 April 2025.
For the Commission
Olivér VÁRHELYI
Member of the Commission
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ANNEX
Protection and surveillance zones established around the confirmed outbreaks:
ADIS reference number of Areas established as protection and surveillance zones
Country Date until applicable
the outbreak referred to in Article 1
Hungary Protection zone:
Those parts of Hungary, contained within a
circle of a radius of 3 kilometres, centred on 30.4.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.745480, Long.
17.694840.
HU-FMD-2025-00001
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Hungary, contained within a
circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on
30.4.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.745480, Long.
17.694840, excluding the areas contained in the
protection zone.
Slovakia Surveillance zone:
In district Dunajská Streda: the municipalities of
Medveďov, Sap, Baloň, Čiližská Radvaň and
HU-FMD-2025-00001 30.4.2025
Kľúčovec.
In district Komárno: the municipalities of Číčov,
Trávnik and Klížska Nemá.
Slovakia Protection zone:
Those parts of Slovakia, contained within a
circle of a radius of 3 kilometres, centred on 30.4.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.8049, Long.
17.6666.
SK-FMD-2025-00001
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Slovakia, contained within a
circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on
30.4.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.8049, Long.
17.6666, excluding the areas contained in the
protection zone.
Hungary Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Hungary, contained within a
SK-FMD-2025-00001 circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on 30.4.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.8049, Long.
17.6666.
Slovakia Protection zone:
Those parts of Slovakia, contained within a
circle of a radius of 3 kilometres, centred on 30.4.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.8433, Long.
17.6214.
SK-FMD-2025-00002
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Slovakia, contained within a
circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on
30.4.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.8433, Long.
17.6214, excluding the areas contained in the
protection zone.
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ADIS reference number of Areas established as protection and surveillance zones
Country Date until applicable
the outbreak referred to in Article 1
Hungary Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Hungary, contained within a
SK-FMD-2025-00002 circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on 30.4.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.8433, Long.
17.6214.
Slovakia Protection zone:
Those parts of Slovakia, contained within a
circle of a radius of 3 kilometres, centred on 30.4.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.9097, Long.
17.5387.
SK-FMD-2025-00003
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Slovakia, contained within a
circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on
30.4.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.9097, Long.
17.5387, excluding the areas contained in the
protection zone.
Hungary Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Hungary, contained within a
SK-FMD-2025-00003 circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on 30.4.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.9097, Long.
17.5387.
Slovakia Protection zone:
Those parts of Slovakia, contained within a
circle of a radius of 3 kilometres, centred on 2.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.9704, Long.
17.4947.
SK-FMD-2025-00004
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Slovakia, contained within a
circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on
2.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.9704, Long.
17.4947, excluding the areas contained in the
protection zone.
Hungary Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Hungary, contained within a
SK-FMD-2025-00004 circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on 2.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.9704, Long.
17.4947.
Hungary Protection zone:
Those parts of Hungary, contained within a
circle of a radius of 3 kilometres, centred on 17.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.90917, Long.
17.19819.
HU-FMD-2025-00002
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Hungary, contained within a
circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on
17.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.90917, Long.
17.19819, excluding the areas contained in the
protection zone.
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ADIS reference number of Areas established as protection and surveillance zones
Country Date until applicable
the outbreak referred to in Article 1
Austria Surveillance zone:
In the Federal State Burgenland within the
HU-FMD-2025-00002 district Neusiedl am See the cadastrial 17.5.2025
communities of Nickelsdorf, Mönchhof,
Halbturn and Deutsch Jahrndorf.
Slovakia Protection zone:
Those parts of Slovakia, contained within a
circle of a radius of 3 kilometres, centred on 20.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 48.3861, Long.
16.9924.
SK-FMD-2025-00005
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Slovakia, contained within a
circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on
20.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 48.3861, Long.
16.9924, excluding the areas contained in the
protection zone.
Austria Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Austria, contained within a circle
SK-FMD-2025-00005 20.5.2025
of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on ETRS89
coordinates Lat. 48.3861, Long. 16.9924.
Hungary Protection zone:
Those parts of Hungary, contained within a
circle of a radius of 3 kilometres, centred on 20.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.8522, Long.
17.41222.
HU-FMD-2025-00003
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Hungary, contained within a
circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on
20.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.8522, Long.
17.41222, excluding the areas contained in the
protection zone.
Slovakia Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Slovakia, contained within a
HU-FMD-2025-00003 circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on 20.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.8522, Long.
17.41222.
Hungary Protection zone:
Those parts of Hungary, contained within a
circle of a radius of 3 kilometres, centred on 20.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.96161, Long.
17.29801.
HU-FMD-2025-00004
Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Hungary, contained within a
circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on
20.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.96161, Long.
17.29801, excluding the areas contained in the
protection zone.
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ADIS reference number of Areas established as protection and surveillance zones
Country Date until applicable
the outbreak referred to in Article 1
Slovakia Surveillance zone:
Those parts of Slovakia, contained within a
HU-FMD-2025-00004 circle of a radius of 10 kilometres, centred on 20.5.2025
ETRS89 coordinates Lat. 47.96161, Long.
17.29801.
Further restricted zones:
Areas established as further restricted zone, part of the restricted zone,
Country Date until applicable
referred to in Article 1
Hungary County of Győr-Moson-Sopron, and in the County of Komárom-
Esztergom the Districts of Komárom, Tata and Esztergom,
20.5.2025
excluding the areas contained in any protection or surveillance
zone.
Slovakia Regions of Bratislava, Trnava and Nitra, excluding the areas
20.5.2025
contained in any protection or surveillance zone.
Austria In the Federal State Niederösterreich the district Gänserdorf and
within the district Bruck an der Leitha the municipalities Au am
Leithaberge, Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Berg, Bruck an der Leitha,
Enzersdorf an der Fischa, Göttlesbrunn-Arbesthal, Götzendorf an
der Leitha, Hainburg a.d. Donau, Haslau-Maria Ellend, Höflein, Hof
am Leithaberge, Hundsheim, Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge,
Petronell-Carnuntum, Prellenkirchen, Rohrau, Scharndorf,
Sommerein, Trautmannsdorf an der Leitha, Wolfsthal, Ebergassing,
Fischamend, Klein-Neusiedl, Schwadorf; in the district Mistelbach
the municipalities Altlichtenwarth, Bernhardsthal, Bockfließ,
Großengersdorf, Großkrut, Hausbrunn, Herrnbaumgarten,
Pillichsdorf, Rabensburg, Schrattenberg, Wilfersdorf; in the district
Mistelbach within the municipality Drasenhofen the cadastrial
communities Drasenhofen, Steinebrunn; in the district Mistelbach
within the municipality Geweinstal the cadastrial communities 20.5.2025
Gaweinstal, Schrick, Martinsdorf; in the district Mistelbach within
the minicipality Großebersdorf the cadastrial Community
Eibesbrunn; in the district Mistelbach within the community
Mistelbach the cadastrial communitry Kettlasbrunn; in the district
Mistelbach within the municipality Poysdorf the cadastrial
communities Höbertsgrub, Ketzelsdorf, Passauerhof, Poysbrunn,
Walterkrichen; in the district Mistelbach within the municipality
Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel the cadastrial communities Obersdorf
and Wolkersdorf; in the distrikt Wiener Neustadt (Land) the
municipalities Lichtenwörth, Zillingdorf.
In the Federal State Burgenland the districts Eisenstadt-Stadt, Rust-
Stadt, Eisenstadt-Umgebung, Mattersburg, Neusiedl am See (with
the exception of the municipalities Nickelsdorf, Mönchhof,
Halbturn and Deutsch Jahrndorf) und Oberpullendorf.
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