RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Recommends Member States should take note of the current autumn-winter risk period for FMD, given the high animal movements associated with the festival periods and the continued circulation in neighbourhood countries of diverse African and West Eurasian genotypes of four FMDV serotypes (O, A, Asia-1 and SAT2), and the risk situation for further African FMDV incursions;

2. Takes note of the recommendations of the FAO/OIE Global Conference on FMD and of the Global

Strategy for Progressive Control of FMD, and agrees to the recommendations relating to promotion of progressive control of FMD through application of the Progressive Control Pathway (PCP)

Framework in the non-free regions neighbouring to Europe;

3. Agrees to consider, as an RSO, providing further support in the implementation of the Strategy through supporting regional initiatives involving Member States, including the West Eurasia FMD

Roadmap and those involving Member States in the east and south Mediterranean;

4. That other recommendations, including support to further development of technical tools and the

PCP Framework, and support to global surveillance and progress monitoring, be considered for possible support during the formulation of the four year EuFMD Strategic Plan for 2013-16;

5. Agrees that a new programme of activities for the period 2013-16 be developed for consultation with Member States and DG-SANCO for adoption at the 40th General Session of the EuFMD, which is focused on improving FMD management capacity in Member States and the European neighbourhood, and is balanced between three components, direct support to Member States, support to improved management in the European neighborhood, and support to the FAO/OIE

Global FMD Control Strategy;

6. Recommends that the future training programme is based on the assessment of needs identified during the training of Community experts and others involved in emergency management, and that a comprehensive assessment of training needs and options, relevant to local and national FMD management be provided to the upcoming Executive and General Session;

7. Recommends, given the risk situation in Turkey and its neighbours, strengthening of support to

FMD management in West Eurasia, particularly in the PCP processes of development of national control strategies based on comprehensive assessment of control options, and that consideration be given in the 2013-16 programme to supporting joint epidemiology and economics support units, with FAO, OIE and the World Bank;

8. Recommends the Turkish authorities on their willingness to share information on FMD on a monthly basis with the EuFMD/FAO and recommends the Standing Technical Committee consider how this may be best used in developing a decision support system that helps the Turkish

authorities in further development of zonal or risk based control programmes, and integrates vaccination and movement controls and other measures;

9. Recommends that a programme for early warning of FMD in Thrace region be established, utilising the outcomes of the Tripartite workshop on FMD surveillance held in Istanbul;

10. Brings attention to the low vaccination coverage reported in eastern and central Anatolia, and recommends greater effort be made to establish a functional early warning system for FMDV covering the four most significant countries in West Eurasia, and EuFMD with Turkey should support continued information flow and sample submission at least from Iran, Pakistan,

Afghanistan into WELNET and WRL;

11. In relation to the SAT2 situation, agrees that the EuFMD Commission should, under its established mechanism with the EC, follow-up the support measures provides to at-risk countries in the past six months to understand the extent of uptake and the change in preparedness and FMD situation in the countries supported, and should respond supportively to the request from Israel to organize a meeting for neighbouring countries on FMD management, given the proximity to EU countries including Cyprus;

12. Recommends continuation of the support is given by EuFMD through the FAO Laboratory Network in East and West/Central Africa (RESOLAB-FMD), to ensure that virus typing and submissions to reference centres occur from sahelian countries, as a service to improved risk management in

North African/Mediterranean countries (REMESA);

13. Agrees with the recommendations from the Standing Technical Committee relating to the support to a study on the use of mobile phone applications in real-time information gathering during FMD surveillance operations.