Overview
- Brandenburg converted most restricted areas in Landkreis Spree‑Neiße to free status, retaining only an ASF protection corridor along the Polish border.
- An EU amendment to Implementing Regulation 2023/594 took effect on September 23, 2025, enabling the rollback of Sperrzonen I and II after sustained absence of new cases.
- In Spree‑Neiße, Sperrzone II shrank from 130 to 11 km² and Sperrzone I from 689 to 263 km², following the last recorded local outbreak on April 18, 2024.
- Saxony secured EU approval to reduce its zones after just one case in the past year, cutting Sperrzone II in Bautzen from 1,403 to 170 km² and easing curbs for farmers and hunters in newly free areas.
- Surveillance continues with a two‑fence corridor, risk‑based carcass searches, and ongoing testing of found and hunted wild boar, as nationwide totals reached 8,402 wild‑boar cases and 20 farm outbreaks by September 9, and Saxony reported €54 million in ASF response costs including about 850 km of fencing.