Overview

• Brandenburg’s application to resize African swine fever restriction zones was approved by the EU Commission and the Standing Veterinary Committee following an amendment to Annex I of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 effective 23 September 2025.
• Landkreis Spree‑Neiße reclassified most of its territory as free, shrinking Sperrzone II from 130 to 11 square kilometers and Sperrzone I from 689 to 263 square kilometers.
• A protection corridor of two fixed fences along the Polish border remains in force and authorities stress that all gates must stay closed to maintain the barrier effect.
• Surveillance continues in newly freed areas with risk‑oriented carcass searches and testing of all found or shot wild boar, while healthy shot animals may be used immediately by hunters without awaiting results.
• No local ASF case has been confirmed in Spree‑Neiße since 18 April 2024, and separate EU‑approved adjustments in Saxony cut Sperrzone II in Bautzen from 1,403 to 170 square kilometers and reduced the surrounding buffer zone.