Kick-off meeting of the Standing Group of Experts on Lumpy Skin Disease

The objectives of this first meeting were to set up the Standing Group of Experts on LSD, provide a first update of the situation in each country (tour de table), provide general recommendations for the Region.

Key documents

Agenda

• Background documents
  Setting the scene (GF-TADs Secretariat)
  SGE LSD Modus Operandi
  6th GF-TADs Regional Steering Committee Recommendations (Rec1: Governance; Rec2: Diseases)
  EFSA 2015 Scientific Opinion on LSD
  Report of the 2016 EFSA/SANTE Workshop on LSD
• Countries presentations
  Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, FYROM, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey
  * This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.
• Expert presentations
  LSD Epidemiology (Dr. E. Tuppurainen)
  LSD Laboratory diagnosis (Dr. E. Tuppurainen)
  LSD Control and eradication (Dr. K. de Clercq)
• Organisation presentations
  FAO presentation on LSD (Dr E. Raizman)
  Outcomes of the joint EFSA-SANTE workshop (11-12 MAy 2016) and recent EFSA activities on LSD (Dr A. Gervelmeyer)
• Recommendations
  SGE LSD1 recommendations