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Activities of the OIE Regional Commissionfor Europe and Regional Representation for

Eastern Europe

(May 2009 - May 2010)

Prof. Dr. Nikola T. Belev


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In Memoriam:

Dr. Petro Verbitskiy

1953 - 2010On February 12th, 2010passed away an honourable

man, taken too soon hewill be greatly missed andalways remembered

1999 - 2005 -CVO of

Ukraine and OIEDelegate

Since January 2009 -

CVO and OIE Delegate 2003 - 2006

A Secretary General of

the OIE RegionalCommission for Europe


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Table of contents:

Introduction

Regional Commission for Europe - Activities

Regional Representation for Eastern Europe (RR-EE) - Activities

Missions carried out by the OIE Regional Representation

Meetings organised with the support of the OIE RR-EE

Meetings attended by RR-EE representing the OIE

Future activities

Conclusions and Proposals


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Introduction:

53 Members of the OIE Regional Commission for Europe:

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia andHerzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,Finland, Former Yug. Rep. of Macedonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece,Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia,Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldavia, Montenegro,Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia,Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey,

Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan.


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Geographic coverage of the OIE Regional

Commission for Europe

(currently includes 53 Members)

http://www.rr-europe.oie.int/


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Regional Commission for Europe -

ActivitiesRe-election of the Bureau of the OIE Regional Commission for Europeduring the 77-th OIE General Assembly of Delegates in May 2009 for a

new 3-year mandate.

PresidentVice-President

Vice-PresidentSecretary General

Dr Nikola T. Belev

(Bulgaria)

Dr Kazimieras Lukauskas

(Lithuania)

Dr Patrick Rogan

(Ireland)

Dr Nihat Pakdil

(Turkey)

The OIE Regional Commission for Europe supported the efforts aimingat increasing of public awareness toward rabies. On September 28th,2009, all Members of the Region were invited to organize a special

event in line with World Rabies Day initiative of the Alliance for RabiesControl (ARC).
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Regional Commission for Europe -

ActivitiesA meeting of the Bureau of the OIE Regional Commission forEurope took place in Sofia (Bulgaria) on September 30th, 2009,kindly hosted by the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

During the meeting following topics were discussed:

-Accomplishment of the 4-thOIE Strategic Plan (2006-2010) andpreparation of the 5-thOIE Strategic Plan (2011-2015);

- Discussion of the amendments to the OIE Basic Texts;

- Epizootic Situation within the countries of the European Region;- Education of Veterinary Specialists;- Animal Welfare;- Food Safety within the frames of OIE mandate;


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Regional Commission for Europe-

Activities

- Aspects of use of the OIE World Animal Health Information System

(WAHIS) and arrears of notification regarding epizootic situation;- Structure of National Veterinary Services of the countries of the

European Region;

- Proposal for organizing of Working Group for Evaluation of the

economic losses due to animal infectious diseases headed by Dr. RomanoMarabelli;


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Epizootic situation in Europe

- Main concerns of the Region in regard with the epizootic situation fromMay 2009 to May 2010 were Bluetongue, Brucellosis, Rabies, African

swine fever (ASF) and Classical swine fever (CSF).

- Some sporadic cases of Avian Influenza - H5N1 showed that the threat

has still not disappeared.


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Introduction of the RR for Eastern

Europe (1)

Main objectives of the OIE Regional Representationfor Eastern Europe have been as follows:

- Implementation of the 4th OIE Strategic Plan.

- Improvement of competence and expertise of veterinarians(capacity-building programmes).

- Meetings with members of Governments and Parliaments ofthe following OIE Members: Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia andBulgaria.

- Distribution of permanent updated information regarding theoutcome of the OIE General Session, Regional Projects, Seminarsand other important regional and global activities to the PrimeMinisters and CVOs of all Member countries from the region.


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Main objectives of RR-EE (2)

- Updating the Web site with the activities of the OIE Regional

Commission for Europe.

- Application of the PVS Tool for evaluation of national VeterinaryServices in some OIE Members in Eastern Europe.

- Increased contacts and cooperation with mass media.

- Enhanced collaboration between the office of the OIE Sub-Regional Representation in Brussels and the European Union.

OIE R i l R t ti f


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OIE Regional Representation for

Eastern Europe

Prof. Dr. Nikola T. Belev - Regional Representative, e-mail: [email protected] tel: (+359) 2 985 11 311

Dr. Caroline Plant Sub Regional Representative, e-mail: [email protected] tel: (+32) 2 235 86 13

Mrs. Rina Kostova - Secretary, e-mail: [email protected] tel: (+359) 2 985 11 310

Dr. Stanislav Ralchev - Expert, e-mail: [email protected] tel: (+359) 2 985 11 309

Dr. Anatoly Vlasov - Expert, e-mail: [email protected] tel: (+359) 2 985 11 309

Mr. Mustafa Kichuk supplier and assistant
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Official visits and

governmental meetingsCountry Departure date Return date Name/purpose of the activity

Russia 4 June 6 June 2009

Meeting with Governmental officials, including

the Minister of Agriculture Mrs. Elena Skrinik andthe Head of the Federal Service for Veterinary andPhytosanitary Surveillance Mr. Sergey Dankvert

Bulgaria 25 July 2009 31 July 2009

Meeting with Mr Suleimenov, Chairman of the

State Inspection Committee in the agro-industrialcomplex in the Ministry of Agriculture ofKazakhstan and Dr. M. Naidenov, Minister ofAgriculture and Food of Bulgaria

Bulgaria22 October 2009 22 October 2009

Meeting with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Mr.Boyko Borissov, initiated by the Minister of

Agriculture and Foods, Dr. Miroslav Naydenov inorder to represent the OIE structure and RR-EEactivities, to discuss the epizootic situation inEurope, food safety of the products of animalorigin, animal welfare, environmental protectionand OIE WAHIS System.

France25 November

200927 November 2009

Meeting with the new-elected UNESCO SecretaryGeneral Mme Irina Bokova


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Official visits and

governmental meetings

Country Departure date Return date Name/purpose of the activity

Ukraine 09 March 13 March 2010

Meeting with the new-appointed Minister of

Agricultural Policy of Ukraine, Mr. MikolaPrisyajnuk, his deputies and representatives of

the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Science

Serbia 19 April 19 April 2010

Meeting with the OIE Delegate of Serbia, Dr. Zoran

Micovic, Dr. Zvonimir Rot Adviser of the CVOand Dr. Budimir Plavsic Head of Animal health

and Welfare Department at the Veterinary

Directorate of Serbia


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Meetings, organised with the support

of the OIE RR-EE

Meeting Country Dates Purpose of the meeting

OIE Seminar onAnimal Welfare

Turkey 16-17 July 2009

Presentation of the latest OIE standards andregulations in respect to Animal Welfare toOIE Delegates and Focal Points. Also, itcreated an opportunity for the Delegates andFocal Point to present their practicalexperience and opinion in regard to thismatter

Meeting of theBureau of the OIE

RegionalCommission for

Europe

Bulgaria30 September

2009

Discussion of variety aspects of theactivities of the Regional Commission inregard to Fulfilment of the OIE 4th StrategicPlan, preparations of the next OIE StrategicPlan, International Cooperation Programmes,Epizootic Situation, Food Safety,Contribution, and several other topics.

Workshop for OIENational Focal

Points forWildlife

France4-6 November

2009

To provide training for National Focal Pointsfor Wildlife in regard to fulfilment of the OIEMember obligations.


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Meetings, organised with the support

of the RR-EE

Meeting Country Dates Purpose of the meeting

Kick-off Meeting of theIZS Teramo Project on

Implementation ofsurveillance,prophylaxis and

contingency plans forbrucellosis,

tuberculosis, rabies,foot and mouth

diseases, and anthraxin CIS countries"

Ukraine 11-12 March 2010

The main project objectives are to support

participating countries in the planning andimplementation of surveillance and control

activities of mentioned animal diseases. The

list of beneficiary countries includes:

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan,

Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan,

Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine.

OIE Workshop forNational Focal Points

for Aquatic AnimalDiseases

Croatia 21-23 April 2010Postponed for November 2010 due to theunexpected volcanic eruption in Iceland andcancelling of all European flights.

Coordination Meeting

for Western Balkan

Countries

Bulgaria 11 May 2010

Better coordinate the current and future

actions in regard with major TADs in the

region, in particular CSF and Rabies


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Meetings, attended by RR-EE

representing OIE

Meeting Country Dates

77th General Session of OIE France 24-29 May 2009

World Grain Forum 2009 Russia 5-6 June 2009

FVE/TAIEX Conference on OneHealth: effective herd health

control.Bulgaria 23-24 June 2009

Veterinary Medicine DayCelebration

Ukraine 6 August 2009


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Meetings, attended by RREE

representing OIE


GTFS Tripartite Final ReviewMeeting, Controlling Trans-

boundary Animal Diseases inCentral Asian Countries

Turkey 5-6 October 2009

78th Session of the ExecutiveCommittee of the EU-FMD

CommissionTurkey 6-7 October 2009

West Eurasia FMD Control

Roadmap 2020 Turkey 7-9 October 2009

Evolving Veterinary Education forsafer world

France 12-14 October 2009

FVE/TAIEX Conference on OneHealth: Training on Zoonotic

DiseasesMontenegro 20 October 2009

TAIEX Workshop on: Assessmentof EU standards for Veterinary

Teaching EstablishmentsBulgaria 26 October 2009

Workshop for OIE National Focal

Points for WildlifeFrance 4-6 of November 2009


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Meetings, attended by RREE

representing OIE


Regional Workshop on the WTOAgreement on Sanitary andPhytosanitary Measures

Uzbekistan 16 19 February 2010

Third Meeting of the RegionalSteering Committee of the GF-TADs

for EuropeBelgium 24-25 February 2010

Opening ceremony of a new

Master program on VeterinaryAdministration in the Thracian

University

Bulgaria 04 March 2010

79thSESSION of the

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of theEuropean Commission for the

Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease(EuFMD)

Sweden16 -17 March 2010

CVO meeting on IPA Project on theEradication monitoring and control

of Classical Swine Fever andRabies in Western Balkan

Serbia 26 27 April 2010


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Future activitiesCapacity building programme 2010

Country Estimated date Name/purpose of the activity

Belarus 30June2July2010 OIESeminarforNewDelegates

Serbia 2628July2010OIESeminarforVeterinaryMedicinalProducts

focalpoints

Kazakhstan 21

24

September

2010

24thConferenceoftheOIERegionalCommission

forEurope

Ukraine 35November2010 OIESeminaronthecostofanimaldiseases

CroatiaNovember2010 OIE Workshop for National Focal Points for

Aquatic Animals


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- The problem of Veterinary Services structure still remains in some

countries in the Region and the main attention has to be furtherfocused on it (ex: establishment of minor food safety agencies or othersecondary structures).


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- Necessity of stronger commitment of all member countries from theregion in the events organized or co-organized by the OIE (to include EU

member states, not only countries from East-European region); regular andon-time reporting on epizootic status and feed back to the initiatives underthe auspices of the OIE headquarter and RR-EE


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- Rabies to be a further priority in 2010 and a necessity of unified rabiescontrol and eradication programme for Europe;


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Acknowledgements

The OIE RR-EE wants to express its thanks to Dr B.Vallat, OIE Director General, Dr M. Eloit, OIE

Deputy Director General, all Heads of Departments and their staff for their cooperation and constant

support rendered to the activities organized by the Regional Presentation.

We would like to extend our gratitude to the European Commission (DG SANCO and TAIEX Office),

FAO, World Bank and all intergovernmental, as well as NGOs for their cooperation and permanent

support rendered with regard to the implementation of the OIE program for the European region.

Our activities and their success depend, to a great extent, on the active participation and unceasing

support rendered by the Governments and OIE Delegates from Europe.


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Thank youfor your attention!

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