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, poultry meat and table eggs from Astrakhanskaya Oblast, province in Russia.

Following the notification published by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on 8 December 2016 regarding the outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (HPAI) in Astrakhanskaya Oblast in Russia, 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 Astrakhanskaya Oblast. 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, poultry meat and table eggs and their untreated products originating from Astrakhanskaya Oblast in Russia, except heat-treated products;

2.  Consignments of poultry meat shipped from Astrakhanskaya Oblast in Russia, before 17 October 2016 were permitted.