STATEMENT BY DIRECTOR OF VETERINARY SERVICES ON IMPORT RESTRICTIONS

The Director of Veterinary Services would like to inform those interested that restrictions on the imports of meats of bovine, caprine, ovine and swine from Ireland and France are being lifted as long as the meats in question have been slaughtered after the 22nd June 2001in the case of Ireland and after 23rd June 2001 in relation to France. The BSE import restrictions are still in force.

The Director further informs that due to an outbreak of Classical Swine Fever in Spain all imports of meat and meat products (not canned) of pork origin from Spain are being temporarily suspended.