Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2250 of 4 November 2025 amending and correcting Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 laying down special disease control measures for African swine fever

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health (‘Animal Health Law’) (1), and in particular Article 71(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) African swine fever is an infectious viral disease affecting kept and wild porcine animals and it can have a severe impact on the concerned animal population and the profitability of farming causing disturbance to movements of consignments of those animals and products thereof within the Union and exports of those consignments to third countries.

(2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 (2) lays down special disease control measures for African swine fever to be applied for a limited period of time by the Member States which are listed, or which have areas listed, in Annexes I and II thereto. That Implementing Regulation lays down rules, among other things, on the listing at Union level in Annex I thereto of restricted zones I, II and III following outbreaks of African swine fever, and rules on the listing at Union level in Annex II thereto, following an outbreak of that disease in a previously disease-free Member State or zone.

(3) Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 was last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2189 (3), following changes in the epidemiological situation as regards African swine fever in Croatia, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia.

(4) Since the date of adoption of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2189, an error has been detected in certain entries for Croatia in Parts I and II of Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594, as amended by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2189, which needs to be corrected. Recital 6 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2189 mentions that following an oubreak of African swine fever in a wild porcine animal, certain areas of Osjecko-Baranjska county in Croatia that were listed as a restricted zone I in Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594, should be listed as a restricted zone II. However, due to an error in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2189, amending Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594, these areas were erroneously listed as a restricted zone I, so they must be listed as a restricted zone II instead. As a result, this error now affects certain entries for Croatia in Parts I and II of Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594, as thus amended. This error should, therefore, be corrected.

(5) In addition, since the date of adoption of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2189, Lithuania has notified the Commission of a new outbreak of African swine fever in kept porcine animals.

(6) Changes to the listing of restricted zones I, II and III in Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 must be based on the epidemiological situation as regards African swine fever in the areas affected by that disease, the overall epidemiological situation of African swine fever in the Member State concerned, and the level of risk for the further spread of that disease. Restricted zones are also established on scientifically agreed principles and criteria for geographically defining zoning due to the presence of African swine fever laid out in the Commission Notice on the guidelines on the prevention, control and eradication of African swine fever in the Union (ASF guidelines) (4), as well as taking account of international standards, such as the Terrestrial Animal Health Code of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), and justifications for zoning provided by the competent authorities of the Member State concerned.

(7) In October 2025, an outbreak of African swine fever in kept porcine animals was observed in Vilniaus county in Lithuania in an area currently listed as a restricted zone II in Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594. This new outbreak of African swine fever in kept porcine animals also constitutes an increased level of risk, which requires additional measures to address the risk to animal health. That area of Lithuania currently listed as a restricted zone II should, therefore, now be listed instead as a restricted zone III in Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594, and the current boundaries of the restricted zones II and III should also be redefined to take account of that outbreak.

(8) Accordingly, in order to take account of this recent development in the epidemiological situation concerning African swine fever in the Union, and to proactively combat the risks associated with the spread of that disease, the entries for Lithuania in Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 should be amended to take account of the recent outbreak in that Member State.

(9) As the situation as regards African swine fever is very dynamic in the Union, when demarcating those new restricted zones, account has also been taken of the epidemiological situation in areas surrounding the outbreak.

(10) Given the urgency of the epidemiological situation in the Union as regards the spread of African swine fever, it is important that the amendments made, by this Implementing Regulation, to Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 take effect as soon as possible.

(11) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Corrections and amendments to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594

Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 4 November 2025.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 84, 31.3.2016, p. 1, ELI:. http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/429/oj.

(2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 of 16 March 2023 laying down special disease control measures for African swine fever and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/605 (OJ L 79, 17.3.2023, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/594/oj).

(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2189 of 23 October 2025 amending Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 laying down special disease control measures for African swine fever (OJ L, 2025/2189, 27.10.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/2189/oj).

(4) OJ C, C/2023/1504, 18.12.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2023/1504/oj.