Brussels, 17/04/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 16 April, the management committee of the EU voted in favour of a draft regulation aiming to provide compensation to pig farmers in regions of Lithuania hit by commercial restrictions as a result of the two cases of African swine fever detected in wild boars near to the border with Belarus.
The measures are similar to those agreed for Poland last month (see EUROPE 11044), apart from the fact that in the case of Lithuania, slaughtered...