The European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, announced on Monday 15 October in Luxembourg that he had invited the EU Agriculture and Environment Ministers to an informal meeting on African Swine Fever (ASF), to be held in Brussels on 19 December (on the margins of the last Council of the year).
The Commissioner indicated that long-term management measures for the wild boar population will be a central element of this meeting.
He believes that efforts are...