The first meeting of the Standing Group of Experts on African swine fever in the Baltic and Eastern Europe region (SGE1) took place in Minsk, Belarus, on 1-2 December 2014.

All seven countries part of the initiative were present, represented for six of them by their OIE Delegates/CVO. Representatives of Kazakhstan, as well as the Eurasian Economic Community attended as observers, following a separate meeting of the Customs Union held back to back with the SGE1 in Minsk.