United Arab Emirates is imposing a temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds and their untreated by-products from Spain

Description of content: Following the notification published by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) regarding the outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (HPAI) in Spain, 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 Spain.These measures include:1- Temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds and their untreated by-products and day-old chicks and hatching eggs from Spain to the United Arab Emirates.2- Applying the "mechanism of importing falcons from high-risk countries" on importing from Spain.3- Continue to allow the importation of heat-treated poultry products (treated meat and treated egg products) in addition to the heat-treated by-products from Spain.4- Allow the entry of consignments of unheat-treated poultry meat and table eggs from areas (according to the first administrative division (autonomous community)) that are not infected, according to the currently used health certificate models , provided that the competent authorities of the country of export send a health statement: "The imported products were produced (and packed) from live poultry from a facility (farm/slaughterhouse/packing facility) in an area (defined within a 25 km radius around the facility) in which no highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have been recorded for a period of no less than (28) days prior to exportation with the application of the destruction policy or for a period of no less than (12) months prior to export without applying the policy of destruction.
5- Consignments of unheat-treated poultry meat and table eggs and its products from (Castile and León) that produced after 23.12.2021 are not allowed to be exported to the United Arab Emirates.