90th SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE EuFMD COMMISSION
MONZA 24-25 SEPTEMBER 2015
The following was agreed Components 1.1, 2.4 and 3.4 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5, 1.7 and 3.3 1.6 and 1.8 2.1 2.2 2.3 3.1 3.2
Title or Theme Training Programmes Contingency Planning Support THRACE surveillance Balkans preparedness Research, PT and Global Laboratory Network/Surveillance Emergency and Risk Communication Turkey/Georgia/West Eurasia Cyprus, Israel and neighbours REMESA Support to the FMD WG/Global Report PCP
ExCom member/Officer Martin Blake Ulrich Herzog Spiros Doudonakis Budimir Plavsic (+Ulrich Herzog) Christianne Bruschke Lajos Bognar Irfan Erol (+Jean Luc, UH) Jean-Luc Angot Jean-Luc Angot Gediminas Pridotkas Jean-Luc Angot
Item 6 Specific Components – report on recent events and their relation to work plans under Phase IV. Component 1.3, THRACE The report and proposal for the work plan were presented by Fabrizio Rosso (Appendix 5). Given the risks of incursions of Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD), following on the Sheep Goat Pox (SGP) epidemic in 2014-15, the work plan for the component had been adapted to improve confidence in early detection of other Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADS), but budget for this was limited (to 14% of the total) in relation to support for the system of FMD surveillance. A management meeting of the focal points for the THRACE project was held on 30th August 2015, with the EuFMD-FAO/OIE/EC Tripartite taking place on the 30th October and 2st September. The Report of that meeting is given in Appendix 7. Both meetings considered what was learnt from Phase III and made proposals for change to the targets in Phase IV. The LSD incursions highlighted the problem of unknown routes of entry for SGP and LSD into Turkish Thrace, thereby a risk based approach for FMD may not be as sensitive for detection of other infections. The country representatives of Greece and Bulgaria made the case for continuation of the surveillance programme and to include preparedness for response as a target, not only early detection. The needs for improvement in the system were identified, including achieving greater sensitivity of the passive surveillance (active approach to livestock owner engagement proposed in Greece), and identification of feasible health outcome targets (evidence for Thrace being free of PPR, FMD, SGP and LSD in 24 months). Achieving such outcomes is really dependent on the country situation and its control programmes but the THRACE surveillance could provide supportive evidence for freedom after incursions are controlled. Four expected results (Targets) of the THRACE Component for 2015-17 were proposed, as agreed at the Tripartite Meeting, and their associated budgets, with a total of 320,000€ for the first 24 month period of Phase IV. Discussion AEF raised the point that the surveillance model had not provided early warning of LSD in Greece, in that outbreaks in Turkish part of Thrace were not detected or reported in advance, although there
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