A lower bird-flu risk level does not reduce traceability duties

France lowered its national highly pathogenic avian influenza risk level to “moderate” on 5 November 2026. The Agriculture Ministry’s update of 12 November lists six outbreaks in the season that began in early August: three in commercial holdings in Maine-et-Loire and three in backyard or captive birds in Gironde, Seine-Maritime and Landes. The lower risk classification does not remove permanent biosecurity obligations.