Belgium: Belgian Regains African Swine Fever-Free Status

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英文名称：

Belgium: Belgian Regains African Swine Fever-Free Status

工作单位：

Office of Agricultural Affairs, The Hague

来源地址：

https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/belgium-belgian-regains-african-swine-fever-free-status

关键词：

Livestock and Meats;  Beef and Cattle;  African Swine Fever;  Livestock and Meats;  Beef and Cattle;  African Swine Fever;  Europe and Eurasia;  Belgium;  Luxembourg; 

年份：

2020

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

语种：

English

摘要：

On November 20, 2020, the European Commission declared Belgium free of African Swine Fever (ASF), one year after the last finding of an ASF infection. Belgium becomes only the second EU Member States (MS), after the Czech Republic in 2019, to eradicate the disease and regain export eligibility, while eleven other EU MS continue to fight the disease. This EU decision opens the door for Belgian pork exporters to seek export approval to overseas markets, especially China and other Asian countries. The Belgian pork industry faced severe losses over the last year years after suffering from its own ASF outbreak, the arrival of the COVID-19 crisis, and the outbreak of ASF in its first export market, Germany