Officiel animal health status

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is a contagious mycoplasmal disease of cattle due to Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides SC and is an OIE listed disease. At the 63rd General Session in 1995, the International Committee adopted the Recommended Standards for Epidemiological Surveillance Systems for Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia proposed by the Foot and Mouth Disease and Other Epizootics Commission (now the Scientific Commission for Animal Diseases). The requirements for Members to declare themselves provisionally free or to apply for official recognition of freedom by the OIE, are described in Appendix 3.8.3. of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code (see OIE Disease Free Status and Disease Free Recognition procedures).

Each year in May, during the General Session, the International Committee, composed of the Delegates of the OIE Members, adopts by Resolution a list of Members officially recognised by the OIE as free from CBPP. For the latest version of the list, click on 'Recognition of the Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia Status of Members'.

For CBPP free Members that experience CBPP outbreaks, an expedited procedure for regaining its free status has been adopted by the International Committee. During the General Session in 2008, the International Committee adopted a Resolution XXII summarizing the procedures for Members for the official recognition and maintenance of status of certain animal diseases. Tthe Scientific Commission has the authority to reattribute to a Member previously recognised as being CBPP free, and without further consultation with OIE Members and the International Committee, its free status for all or part of its territory if the Member provides evidence in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code.

1. By means of subsequent Resolutions* since the 71st General Session of the OIE the International Committee has established a procedure for annually updating a list of Member countries and zones, recognised as free from contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) according to the provisions of the Terrestrial Code,

2. During the 70th General Session, the International Committee adopted Resolution No. XVIII asking Members applying for this evaluation to meet part of the costs sustained by the OIE Central Bureau in the evaluation process,

3. During the 72nd General Session the International Committee adopted Resolution No. XXIII that implemented the establishment of a list of countries or zones free from CBPP and included in that list Members already recognised free of CBPP by the OIE,

4. During the 72nd General Session, the International Committee adopted Resolution No. XXIII which stated that the Delegates of Members where countries or zones are recognised as CBPP free, annually confirm by letter during the month of November that their CBPP status and the criteria by which that status was recognised have remained unchanged,

5. Information published by the OIE is derived from declarations made by the official Veterinary Services of Members . The OIE is not responsible for inaccurate publication of country or zonal disease free status based on inaccurate information, changes in epidemiological status or other significant events that were not promptly reported to the Central Bureau subsequent to the time of declaration of freedom from CBPP,

1. The Director General publish the following list of Members recognised as free from CBPP according to the provisions of the Chapter 2.3.15. of the Terrestrial Code:

Australia, Botswana, India, Portugal, Switzerland and the United States of America

2. The Delegates of these Members will immediately notify the Central Bureau if CBPP occurs in their countries .

* 71st General Session (GS) Resolution No (Res) XXIV; 73rd GS Res XVI and 74th GS Res XXIX.

Self-declaration of provisional freedom from
contagious bovine pleuropneumonia

Appendix 3.8.3. (Surveillance for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia) of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code specifies the requirements that a country or zone of a country must comply before a Member can declare the country, territory or zone provisionally free from CBPP..

Table 1 lists the countries that have declared themselves provisionally free from CBPP not practising vaccination. The OIE publishes this information on the basis of self-declarations made by the Veterinary Services of OIE Members. The OIE therefore declines all responsibility in publishing this information on the status of provisional freedom from CBPP if it is inaccurate, or if there have been changes in the epidemiological status of the disease or if any other significant event has occurred subsequent to the self-declaration which has not been brought to the attention of the Director General of the OIE.

Table 1: Countries self-declared provisionally free from contagious bovine pleuropneumonia where vaccination is not practised

Country	Date of self-declaration
Sénégal	May 2007