United Arab Emirates is imposing a temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds and their untreated by-products from the Province of Sultan Kudarat and the Province of Pampanga in the Philippines

Following the notification published by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) regarding the outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza virus (HPAI) in the Province of Sultan Kudarat and the Province of Pampanga in the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates is applying a precautionary sanitary measure to prevent the risk of introducing HPAI virus through the imports of live birds and their products from the Province of Sultan Kudarat and the Province of Pampanga in the Philippines.These measures include:1) Continuous of temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds and their untreated by-products and day-old chicks and hatching eggs from the Philippines to the United Arab Emirates;2) Continue to allow the importation of heat-treated poultry products (treated meat and treated egg products) from all regions in the Philippines;3) Regulating the import of poultry meat and table eggs and their non-heat treated products according to the health certificate for export of "meat and meat products" and the health certificate for export of "table eggs and egg products" from the Philippines to the United Arab Emirates;4) Continuing to allow the entry of consignments of table eggs and unheated poultry meat from regions (according to the first administrative division (Provinces)) that are not infected with the health certificate forms currently used, provided that the competent authorities in the exporting country send a health certificate: "The imported products have been produced (and packed) of live poultry from a facility (farm/slaughterhouse/packing facility) in an area (known within a radius of 25 km around the facility) in which no hotbeds of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have been recorded for a period of not less than (28) previous days Export with the application of the destruction policy, or for a period of no less than (12) months preceding the export without applying the policy of destruction." All necessary precautions were taken to prevent the consignment from coming into contact with any source of the bird flu virus;5) As a precautionary measure, consignments of table eggs and non-heat treated poultry meat from the Province of Pampanga and the Province of Sultan Kudarat that were produced after 26 January 2022 are not allowed to enter.