On December 21, 2011 in Bulgarian Food Safety Agency was held extraordinary tripartite meeting related to the situation with disease rabies on common border area between Bulgaria, Greece and Macedonia.
The meeting was attended by experts from Bulgarian Food safety agency, experts of Services from Greece and Macedonia, as well as Mr. Panagiotis Demetriu, who is a representative of European Commission. There were also representatives of referential laboratory of the Community for disease rabies – Nancy and experts from Institute Friedrich-Loeffler (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health).
There were presentations from the three countries regarding to the situation related with the disease. There were also surveillance and monitoring, as well as information for disease dissemination and held research.
Measures for approving of joint work in eradication of the disease, as well as recommendations for future activities were discussed.