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 the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and imposition of a temporary ban on poultry meat and table eggs from Struga province in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Following the notification published by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on 30 January 2017 regarding the outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (HPAI) in Struga province in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 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 the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. 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 the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia;

2.  Temporary ban on poultry meat and table eggs and their untreated products from Struga in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, except heat-treated products;

3.  Consignments of poultry meat shipped from Struga in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia before 31 December 2016 were permitted.