On Thursday 31 August, the European Commission adopted provisional emergency measures in response to new outbreaks of African swine fever detected on pig farms in Italy.
Italy recently informed the Commission of the African swine fever situation on its territory following the confirmation of new outbreaks of the disease in pigs in the Lombardy region, where African swine fever had so far only been confirmed in wild boar. To prevent the spread of the disease, Italy has established a...