Eradication of brucellosis – Senate

2023-02-12 23:00:00

The summary

The fight once morest brucellosis, an animal disease affecting Alpine ibexes as well as farm animals and transmissible to humans, represents a major public health issue, as well as a very sensitive environmental, economic and social issue in our territories. alpine. The Senate’s European Affairs Committee has taken up this issue, because European regulations are frequently suspected of being the source of the difficulties to be overcome in order to carry out campaigns to eradicate this disease.

Focusing therefore initially on detailing the applicable legal framework, this information report tends to show that in reality, the strategy for combating the resurgence of brucellosis in the French Alps is not governed by of the European Union only in broad outline and leaves a great deal of room for maneuver to the Member States on how to meet the objectives set.

At the same time, the report pleads in favor of a full and complete application of the multi-annual strategy for the constitution of a healthy core of animals in the wild fauna – the ibexes – in accordance with the spirit of the general recommendations of the National Agency food, environmental and occupational health safety (ANSES). It is also considering a “rendezvous clause” within three years, to assess the provisional horizon for eradicating the disease by this date.

With regard, finally, to health policing operations in cattle farms affected by brucellosis, the report suggests providing for certain possibilities of targeted relaxation, such as to improve the social acceptability of the measures required, without taking the risk of calling into question the precious status of “country free from brucellosis” enjoyed by France.

View the report

1681884028
#Eradication #brucellosis #Senate