The sixth meeting of the Standing Group of Experts for LSD in South East Europe (SGE LSD6) took place in Paris, France on 23 May 2018, in the margin of the 86th OIE General Session. This short meeting was aimed at getting an update from countries on the implementation of their 2018 LSD vaccination campaign, as a follow up of the videoconference held earlier in February 2018. Representatives of the OIE, the EC and FAO were in attendance, together with national delegates of the participating countries. The meeting was also attended by number of observer countries following an open invitation from the GF-TADs chair.

Updates were provided by the participating countries in relation to Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) on the progress of their vaccination campaigns, their national procedures for the purchase of vaccines and their epidemiological situation.