A number of samples have to be taken from both wild and domestic birds in each member state, and the type of tests that will be done. |
Coexistence measures are designed to ensure that GM crops can be grown alongside non-GM crops without negative economic consequences caused by accidental mixing of the two. |
Food producers are responsible for controlling every link in the production chain and making sure that only healthy food products arrive on the market. |
I believe the Danish authorities are shortly about to announce that the tests conducted so far are negative. |
In the case of Bulgaria, we will be sending some laboratory and veterinary experts, who will likely leave this weekend, ... For Turkey, the experts we will send are likely to be specialists in epidemiology. |
In the case of Bulgaria, we will be sending some laboratory and veterinary experts, who will likely leave this weekend. For Turkey, the experts we will send are likely to be specialists in epidemiology. |
It's in the industry's own interest to come up with concrete commitments if it doesn't want to face a patchwork of different market conditions across the E.U.. Now these commitments must be monitored, and that's important. |
Many of those questions are being discussed at ministerial level. You don't get answers to sensitive political questions during an exercise. |
Research shows that this particular avian flu virus can be transmitted to humans who are in direct contact with the infected animal. |
Some member states don't share [the view] that it is necessary at the moment to adopt this measure at the European level. |
Such an exercise had never been carried out on this scale, it was a full-blown scenario with the worst that we could be confronted with. |
That aid is yet to be agreed by the ACP countries. We certainly expect Nigeria to benefit from part of these funds, to help them in their fight of this disease. |
That ban remains in force. |
The aim of these national surveillance programs is to provide early detection of cases of avian influenza, particularly in wild birds and poultry in the European Union. |
The Commission has been informed by the European Union reference laboratory ... that the virus isolated in wild birds in Croatia is indeed the H5N1 virus, |