• fresh poultry meat;
• meat preparations and meat products consisting of, or containing poultry meat;
• raw pet food and unprocessed feed material containing any parts of poultry; and
• eggs for human consumption and non-treated game trophies from any birds.

As regards the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, as well as Cambodia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam, the Decision bans imports into the EU of the following:

• unprocessed feathers and parts of feathers (although, by way of derogation, Member States shall authorise their import from Mongolia); and
• live birds other than poultry, including birds accompanying their owners (i.e. pet birds): “birds” in this context means animals of the avian species.

Where traders wish to import processed feathers or parts of feathers into the EU, consignments must be accompanied by a commercial document, which states that the processed feathers or parts thereof have been treated with a steam current or by some other method ensuring that no pathogens are transmitted.

However, the commercial document is not required for processed decorative feathers or parts of feathers, processed feathers carried by travellers for their private use or consignments of processed feathers sent to private individuals for non-industrial uses.

Decision 2007/869/EC will apply until 31 December 2008. However, until an acceptable solution is found which would eradicate the virulent strains of avian influenza (and especially H5N1) or at the very least the possibility, however remote, of it passing between humans, the measures outlined above appear set to remain in force for even longer.