Live poultry (HS Code: 0105), and poultry products including poultry meat (HS Code: 0207), day-old chicks (HS Code: 0105.11), hatching eggs, except heat treated meat

United Arab Emirates is imposing a temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds and their untreated by-product, day-old chicks, hatching eggs from Germany, and imposition of a temporary ban on poultry meat and table eggs from Brandenburg, Niedersachsen provinces in Germany.

Following the notification published by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on 25 January 2017 regarding the outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (HPAI) in Brandenburg and Niedersachsen provinces in Germany, United Arab Emirates is applying a precautionary sanitary measure to prevent the risk of introducing HPAI virus through the imports of live birds and their products from Germany. These measures include:

1.  Temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds and their untreated by-products, day-old chicks and hatching eggs originating from Germany;

2.  Temporary ban on poultry meat and table eggs and their untreated products from Brandenburg, Niedersachsen provinces in Germany, except heat-treated products;

3.  Consignments of poultry meat shipped from Brandenburg, Niedersachsen provinces in Germany before 1 January 2017 were permitted.