final rule importation of live swine swine semen pork and pork products from the czech republic latvia lithuania and poland docket no. aphis- 2006- 0106 the animal and plant health inspection service is amending the regulations governing the importation of animals and animal products to add the czech republic latvia lithuania and poland to the region of the european union that we recognize as low risk for classical swine fever csf . we are also adding the czech republic latvia lithuania and poland to the list of regions we consider free from swine vesicular disease svd and adding latvia and lithuania to the list of regions considered free from foot-and-mouth disease fmd and rinderpest. these actions will relieve some restrictions on the importation into the united states of certain animals and animal products from those regions while continuing to protect against the introduction of csf svd and fmd and rinderpest into the united states. the effective date of the final rule is 13 december 2007. on 12 february 2007 aphis published in the federal register 72 fr 6490- 6499 docket no. aphis 2006- 0106 a proposal to amend the regulations governing the importation of animals and animal products to add the czech republic latvia lithuania and poland to the region of the european union that we recognize as low-risk for csf. in addition we proposed to add the czech republic latvia lithuania and poland to the list of regions we consider free from svd and to add latvia and lithuania to the list of regions considered free from fmd and rinderpest. we also proposed to make other miscellaneous changes to the regulations. these actions were intended to relieve some restrictions on the importation into the united states of certain animals and animal products from those regions while continuing to protect against the introduction of csf svd fmd and rinderpest into the united states. we solicited comments concerning our proposal for 60 days ending 13 april 2007. we received six comments by that date. they were from private citizens a state animal health commission industry groups and polands ministry of agriculture and rural development