EU health ministers decided on Thursday (20 October) to extend a ban on poultry imports to Russia, and impose new measures that would keep the Asian bird flu threat under control.
The only areas to which the ban on Russia will not apply are Kaliningrad and some regions on the border of Finland.
The ministers and the European Commission agreed on the first day of the two-day health council in England, that EU member states must make national evaluations and identify what actions a...
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