Letter of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the introduction of temporary restrictions on the importation to the territory of Kazakhstan from the administrative territories of the Departments of the Vendée, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Deux-Sèvres and Hautes-Pyrénées, France, of live poultry, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat, all poultry products, feed and feed additives for birds, trophies of

The Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan reports that on the basis of the official notification of the World Organisation for Animal Health (notifications on the official website of the OIE WAHIS), outbreaks of avian influenza were registered in the administrative territories of the Departments of the Vendée, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Deux-Sèvres and Hautes-Pyrénées, France. In this regard, since 30 March 2022, temporary restrictions have been introduced on the importation to the territory of Kazakhstan from the administrative territories of the Departments of the Vendée, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Deux‑Sèvres and Hautes-Pyrénées, France of live poultry, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat, all types of poultry products that have not undergone heat treatment (at least 70 °C), feed and feed additives for birds (with the exception of feed additives of chemical and microbiological synthesis), trophies of the chase that have not undergone taxidermy treatment (feather game), used equipment for keeping, slaughtering and cutting birds, as well as transit through the territory of Kazakhstan of live poultry from abovementioned territories.