1st Meeting of the Global Coordination Committee on Foot and Mouth Disease (GCC-FMD). Report of the virtual meeting 22–23 September 2021

The first meeting of the Global Coordination Committee on FMD was conducted virtually on 22 and 23 September 2021. It was organised within the framework of GF-TADs by its FMD Working Group (FMD-WG), with technical support from the European Commission for the Control of FMD.

Participants included representatives of 13 GCC-FMD Standing Member organisations, 10 Observer organisations, representatives from FAO and OIE regional offices, representatives from FAO/OIE Reference Centres, and the head of The Pirbright Institute, which is the FAO/OIE World Reference Laboratory for FMD (WRLFMD). This is the report of that meeting.