Key result
Border disease was assessed as eligible to be listed for Union intervention under the Animal Health Law, primarily affecting sheep and other Bovidae species.
Border disease meets the criteria to be listed for Union intervention under the Animal Health Law, applying to sheep and other Bovidae.
Supports border disease listing eligibility; leaves open prioritization and control strategy development in sheep and Bovidae.
Border disease has been assessed according to the criteria of the Animal Health Law (AHL), in particular criteria of Article 7 on disease profile and impacts, Article 5 on the eligibility of Border disease to be listed, Article 9 for the categorisation of Border disease according to disease prevention and control rules as in Annex IV and Article 8 on the list of animal species concerned by Border disease. The assessment has been performed following a methodology composed of information collection and compilation, expert judgement on each criterion at individual and, if no consensus was reached before, also at collective level. The output is composed of the categorical answer, and for the questions where no consensus was reached, the different supporting views are reported. Details on the methodology used for this assessment are explained in a separate opinion. According to the assessment performed, Border disease can be considered eligible to be listed for Union intervention as laid down in Article 5(3) of the AHL. The disease would comply with the criteria as in Sections 3, 4 and 5 of Annex IV of the AHL, for the application of the disease prevention and control rules referred to in points (c), (d) and (e) of Article 9(1). The animal species to be listed for Border disease according to Article 8(3) criteria are mainly sheep and other species of the family Bovidae as susceptible and reservoirs.
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More et al. (2017) studied Border disease. Assessment according to Animal Health Law criteria was evaluated on Eligibility to be listed for Union intervention. Border disease was assessed as eligible to be listed for Union intervention under the Animal Health Law, primarily affecting sheep and other Bovidae species.
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