Due to concerns about the epidemiological situation in neighbouring countries and the risk of foot-andmouth disease being reintroduced into France, the 2015 health inspection for cattle focused on this disease. The

Following the reemergence of bluetongue virus in September 2015, a new monitoring network for Culicoides populations was set up in France during fall 2015- winter 2016. Despite the mild temperatures of fall 2015- winter 2016, the Culicoides surveillance together with the virus circulation surveillance allowed to notify certain departments as free of both virus and vector activity starting late January 2016.