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UruguayEmergency measure, may already applyEmergency

Emergency measure: Uruguay

Official title

Resolución de la Dirección General de Servicios Ganaderos del Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca N° 093/2026, del 15 de abril de 2026 - Medidas sanitarias aplicadas a la República Argentina en todo su territorio, por brote Prurigo Lumbar (Scrapie) en granjas de ovinos de Argentina (Resolution of the Directorate-General of Livestock Services of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries No. 093/2026 of 15 April 2026 - Sanitary measures applied to the entire territory of the Ar

Uruguay notified this emergency SPS measure on 22 April 2026. Emergency measures can apply immediately.

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At a glance

Products

Live sheep and goats; genetic material (semen and in vitro embryos); animal feed derived from these species; and milk and dairy products obtained from sheep and goats or which contain by-products thereof

HS codes
  • 01 · Animals; live
    • 0104 Live sheep and goats
  • 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
    • 051199 Products of animal origin, n.e.s., dead animals, unfit for human consumption (excl. fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates)
All 10 codes
  • 23 · Food industries, residues and wastes thereof; prepared animal fodder
    • 2301 Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves
    • 2309 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding
Notifying member
Uruguay
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/URY/108
Keywords
Animal health, Animal diseases, Scrapie

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
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/URY/108; it forwards comments to Uruguay.

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What the notification says

The notified Resolution temporarily suspends imports from Argentina of live sheep and goats; genetic material (semen and in vitro embryos); animal feed derived from these species; and milk and dairy products obtained from sheep and goats or which contain by-products thereof.The measure will remain in force until a new risk assessment has been carried out by the Directorate-General of Livestock Services, in accordance with established international recommendations.The prohibition does not apply to safe commodities, as provided for in Article 14.8.1, 'Scrapie', of the WOAH Terrestrial Animal Health Code.

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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