The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Albania, through special orders, took protective measures against the bird flu disease with high pathogenicity in birds, and banned imports from North Macedonia, Croatia, Denmark, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Poland, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia , Romania, Moldova, Spain, Portugal, France, Norway and Austria.

The measures include a ban on the import and transit through the territory of the Republic of Albania of: live poultry, broilers, decorative birds, biological material from birds, poultry eggs, poultry meat not thermally treated, as well as poultry by-products that are not thermally treated.

Also, at the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture took measures to protect against sheep and goat pox diseases that appeared in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria. And in this case, the measures include a ban on the import and transit of all live animals of plant and wool type, biological material and animal by-products of plant and wool type on the territory of the Republic of Albania.

Similar measures have been taken to protect against the bluetongue disease that has appeared in Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Austria, the Netherlands and Spain.