[ BAI ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 1, January 16, 1997 ]
AMENDING ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 1, SERIES OF 1992 ENTITLED: PROHIBITION AGAINST IMPORTATION, BUYING OR INTRODUCTION INTO THE PHILIPPINES OF DOMESTIC OR WILD PORCINE ANIMALS AND THEIR SEMEN, FROZEN, OR CHILLED PIG MEAT PRODUCTS, OFFALS, PROCESSED PORK MEAT, BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS PREPARED FROM ORGANS AND TISSUES OF PIGS AND ALL OTHER PRODUCTS OF PORCINE ORIGIN FROM ANGOLA, IBERIAN PENINSULA (SPAIN AND PORTUGAL), MEDITERRANEAN BASIN (SARDINIA AND MALTA), CUBA, ITALY AND CONTINENTAL AFRICA
In view of the OIE report that African Swine Fever is only circulating in the Island of Sardinia and that the European Union recognizes Spain as free from African Swine Fever. I hereby declare that the prohibition on importation, bringing in or introduction into the Philippines of porcine animals and their semen, offal's, chilled, frozen, preserved meat products, biological products prepared from organs and tissues and all other products of porcine origin coming from the country of Italy and Spain lifted, provided that importation respective to the latter shall be subject to the usual veterinary quarantine rules and regulations of the Bureau of Animal Industry
(SGD.) SALVADOR H. ESCUDERO III
Secretary
This Order shall take effect immediately.
Adopted: 16 Jan. 1997
(SGD.) SALVADOR H. ESCUDERO III
Secretary