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Letter by the Federal Service for Veterinary

Official title

Letter by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance No. FS-ARe-7/6899-3 of 29 December 2025

Russia notified this emergency SPS measure on 22 January 2026. Emergency measures can apply immediately.

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At a glance

Products

Live sheep and goats; genetic material of sheep and goats; products derived from sheep and goats that were not subject to the use of technologies providing destruction of PPR in accordance with the WOAH Terrestrial Animal Health Code

HS codes
  • 01 · Animals; live
    • 0104 Live sheep and goats
    • 0106 Live animals (excl. horses, asses, mules, hinnies, bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, poultry, fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates…
  • 02 · Meat and edible meat offal
    • 0204 Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen
    • 0206 Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen
    • 0210 Meat and edible offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal
All 24 codes
  • 04 · Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
    • 0401 Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
    • 0402 Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
    • 0403 Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or flavoured or containing…
    • 0404 Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter; products consisting of natural milk constituents, whether or not…
    • 0405 Butter, incl. dehydrated butter and ghee, and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads
    • 0406 Cheese and curd
  • 05 · Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included
    • 0506 Bones and horn-cores and their powder and waste, unworked, defatted, simply prepared, treated with acid or degelatinised (excl. cut to shape)
    • 0507 Ivory, tortoiseshell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared; powder and waste of these…
    • 051199 Products of animal origin, n.e.s., dead animals, unfit for human consumption (excl. fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates)
  • 15 · Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
    • 1502 Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats (excl. oil and oleostearin)
    • 1503 Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared.
    • 1505 Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin).
    • 1506 Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified.
    • 151610 Animal fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not…
    • 1518 Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert…
  • 16 · Meat, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or insects; preparations thereof
    • 1601 Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products.
    • 1602 Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects (excl. sausages and similar products, and meat extracts and juices)
    • 1603 Extracts and juices of meat, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates.
  • 19 · Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
    • 190220 Pasta, stuffed with meat or other substances, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared
Notifying member
Russia(Russian Federation)
Status
Emergency measure, may already apply
Objectives
  • Animal health
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Emergency notifications (SPS)
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/RUS/347
Keywords
Animal health, Pests

Key dates

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Comment deadline
Not set in the notification
Proposed adoption
Not set in the notification
Proposed entry into force

How to comment

The notification sets no comment deadline. To comment, contact your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/RUS/347; it forwards comments to Russia.

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What the notification says

This letter introduces temporary restrictions on imports of live sheep and goats and products derived thereof to the Russian Federation, as well as on the transit of animals susceptible to peste des petits ruminants (PPR) through the territory of the Russian Federation from Croatia due to the outbreak of PPR in the country indicated.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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