The Directorate-General of the National Animal Health Service has decided the following:

1. To order a temporary suspension of imports of goods under Chapter 10.4 ("Infection with avian influenza viruses") of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code, which come from zones or compartments in the United States where outbreaks of avian influenza have been reported, and which were produced or obtained 21 days prior to the beginning of the notified outbreak. This excludes products that may be subject to mitigation measures at the place of origin, in accordance with the above Chapter of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code.

Zones and compartments shall be understood to mean the state affected by avian influenza. In the case of the notified Resolution, this applies to the states of Tennessee and Wisconsin.

The sanitary certificates accompanying imports must indicate the mitigation measures to which the avian products were subject, including irradiation treatment, cooking time and temperature, pasteurization, and sterilization.

2. To order the Animal Quarantine Directorate to remain vigilant for new reports of notifiable avian influenza, and to take relevant action with a view to extending previously established import suspensions to new territories.