Press Release: Avian Influenza: Commission proposes updated measures aimed at preventing epidemics

The European Commission on 28 April 2005 adopted a proposal for a Directive establishing updated EU-level measures on the control of avian influenza, thus replacing Directive 92/40/EEC. The updated measures were based on lessons learned from recent epidemics and new scientific knowledge. An important focus of the proposed legislation was to introduce more measures against low pathogenic viruses to prevent mutation into the highly pathogenic forms that have been responsible for the most dramatic epidemics and which are more likely to harm human health.

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Eur-Lex: Council Directive 92/40/EEC of 19 May 1992 introducing Community measures for the control of avian influenza http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31992L0040:EN:HTML

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