Objectives:

Convened by FAO with OIE and EuFMD underGF-TADSas an inter-regional joint meeting for coordination of the national and international efforts on the progressive control of FMD in West Eurasia

• The main objective of the meeting is to review the progress along the Regional Roadmap towards the vision identified at the Shiraz Meeting in 2008, of a “West Eurasia region free of clinical FMD by 2020”.
• A secondary objective is to share information on FMD virus circulation within the West Eurasia FMDV ecosystem to assist planning of vaccination and other preventive measures in the short-term.

Agenda

The Progressive Control Pathway for FMD control (PCP-FMD) Principles, Stage Descriptions and Standards

The Global Foot and Mouth Disease Control Strategy

Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD)(EMPRES page)

The European Commission for the control of Foot-and-Mouth disease (EuFMD)