European Parliament 17 December 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION P-3792/02 by Giovanni Pittella (PSE) to the Commission. Application of the automatic decommitment rule.

Initially, these operations led to a sharp rise in fox populations, and the number of vaccines distributed per square kilometre had to be increased in order to achieve sufficient vaccination coverage to stop viral circulation. Populations then stabilised depending on the availability of food and the territorial behaviour of the species.