25.11.2010   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 309/18

(1)

Decision 2009/470/EC lays down the procedures governing the Union financial contribution for programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses.

(2)

In addition, Article 27(1) of Decision 2009/470/EC provides that a Union financial measure is to be introduced to reimburse the expenditure incurred by the Member States for the financing of national programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of the animal diseases and zoonoses listed in Annex 1 to that Decision.

(3)

Commission Decision 2008/341/EC of 25 April 2008 laying down Community criteria for national programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of certain animal diseases and zoonoses (2) provides that in order to be approved under the Union financial measures, programmes submitted by the Member States must meet at least the criteria set out in the Annex to that Decision.

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (3) provides for annual monitoring programmes by Member States for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in bovine, ovine and caprine animals.

(5)

Council Directive 2005/94/EC of 20 December 2005 on Community measures for the control of avian influenza (4) also provides for surveillance programmes by Member States to be carried out in respect of poultry and wild birds in order to contribute, inter alia, on the basis of regularly updated risk-assessments, to the knowledge on the threats posed by the wild birds in relation to any influenza virus of avian origin in birds. Those annual programmes, and their financing, for monitoring should also be approved.

(6)

Certain Member States have submitted to the Commission annual programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of animal diseases, programmes of checks aimed at the prevention of zoonoses, and annual monitoring programmes for the eradication and monitoring of certain TSEs for which they wish to receive a financial contribution from the Union.

(7)

For the years 2009 and 2010 certain multiannual programmes submitted by Member States for the eradication, control and monitoring of the animal diseases were approved under Commission Decisions 2008/897/EC (5) and 2009/883/EC (6).

(8)

The commitment of the expenditure for those multiannual programmes was adopted in accordance with Article 76(3) of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (7). The first budget commitment for those programmes was made after their approval. Each subsequent annual commitment should be made by the Commission in function of the execution of the programme for the previous year, on the basis of a decision to grant a contribution referred to in Article 27(5) of Decision 2009/470/EC.

(9)

Rabies programmes in most Member States are now approaching the stage of achieving their objective of eradicating this important public health threat. It is appropriate to provide additional support to these programmes through a higher level of financial contribution by the Union, in order to reinforce the efforts of the Member States to eradicate that disease as soon as possible.

(10)

Certain Member States which have been successfully implementing rabies eradication programmes that have been co-financed for several years, share land borders with third countries where that disease is present. In order to finally eradicate rabies, certain vaccination activities need to be carried out in the territory of those third countries adjacent to the Union.

(11)

The Commission has assessed the annual programmes submitted by the Member States, as well as the third and second years respectively of the multiannual programmes approved for 2009 and 2010, from both the veterinary and financial point of view. Those programmes comply with the relevant Union veterinary legislation and in particular with the criteria set out in Decision 2008/341/EC.

(12)

In the light of the importance of the annual and multiannual programmes for the achievement of Union objectives in the field of animal and public health, as well as the obligatory application in all Member States in the case of the TSE and avian influenza programmes, it is appropriate to fix the appropriate rate of the Union financial contribution to reimburse the costs to be incurred by the Member States concerned for the measures referred to in this Decision up to a maximum amount for each programme.

(13)

In the interests of better management and a more efficient use of Union funds and improved transparency, it is also necessary to fix for each programme, where appropriate, the average cost to be reimbursed to the Member States for certain measures, such as the costs of the tests used in the Member States and the compensation payable to owners for their losses due to the slaughter or culling of animals. It is also necessary to clarify which expenditure is eligible for a Union financial contribution. For that reasons, a clarification of eligible expenditure should be included.

(14)

Under Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 of 21 June 2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (8), programmes for the eradication and control of animal diseases are to be financed under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund. For financial control purposes, Articles 9, 36 and 37 of that Regulation are to apply.

(15)

The financial contribution from the Union should be granted subject to the condition that the actions planned are efficiently carried out and that the competent authorities supply all the necessary information within the time limits laid down in this Decision.

(16)

For reasons of administrative efficiency all expenditure submitted for a financial contribution by the Union should be expressed in euro. In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, the conversion rate for expenditure in a currency other than the euro should be the most recent exchange rate set by the European Central Bank prior to the first day of the month in which the application is submitted by the Member State concerned.

(17)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

(a)

shall include a lump sum of EUR 0,5 per domestic animal sampled;

(b)

shall be at the rate of 50 % of the costs to be incurred by each Member State referred to in paragraph 1 for the cost of:

(c)

shall not exceed the following:

(a)

:

for a rose bengal test

:

EUR 0,2 per test;

(b)

:

for a SAT test

:

EUR 0,2 per test;

(c)

:

for a complement fixation test

:

EUR 0,4 per test;

(d)

:

for an ELISA test

:

EUR 1 per test;

(e)

:

for animals slaughtered

:

EUR 375 per animal.

(a)

shall include a lump sum of EUR 0,5 per domestic animal sampled:

(b)

shall be at the rate of 50 % of the costs to be incurred by each Member State referred to in paragraph 1 for:

(c)

shall not exceed the following:

(a)

:

for a tuberculin test

:

EUR 2 per test;

(b)

:

for a gamma-interferon test

:

EUR 5 per test;

(c)

:

for animals slaughtered

:

EUR 375 per animal.

(a)

shall include a lump sum of EUR 0,5 per domestic animal sampled;

(b)

shall be at the rate of 50 % of the costs to be incurred by each Member State referred to in paragraph 1 for:

(c)

shall not exceed the following:

(a)

:

for a rose bengal test

:

EUR 0,2 per test;

(b)

:

for a complement fixation test

:

EUR 0,4 per test;

(c)

:

for animals slaughtered

:

EUR 50 per animal.

(a)

shall include a lump sum of EUR 0,5 per domestic animal sampled;

(b)

shall be at the rate of 50 % of the costs to be incurred by each Member State referred to in paragraph 1 for:

(c)

shall not exceed the following:

(a)

:

for an ELISA test

:

EUR 2,5 per test;

(b)

:

for a PCR test

:

EUR 10 per test;

(c)

:

for the purchase of monovalent vaccines

:

EUR 0,3 per dose;

(d)

:

for the purchase of bivalent vaccines

:

EUR 0,45 per dose;

(e)

:

for the administration of vaccines to bovine animals

:

EUR 1,50 per bovine animal vaccinated, regardless of the number and types of doses used;

(f)

:

for the administration of vaccines to ovine or caprine animals

:

EUR 0,75 per ovine or caprine animal vaccinated, regardless of the number and types of doses used.

(a)

shall include a lump sum of EUR 0,5 per official sample taken;

(b)

shall be at the rate of 50 % of the costs to be incurred by each Member State referred to in paragraph 1 for the cost of:

(c)

shall not exceed the following:

(a)

:

for a bacteriological test (cultivation/isolation)

:

EUR 7 per test;

(b)

:

for the purchase of vaccine

:

EUR 0,05 per dose;

(c)

:

for serotyping of relevant isolates of salmonella spp.

:

EUR 20 per test;

(d)

:

for a bacteriological test to verify the efficiency of disinfection of poultry houses after depopulation of a salmonella-positive flock

:

EUR 5 per test;

(e)

:

for a test for the detection of antimicrobials or bacterial growth inhibitory effect in tissues from birds from flocks tested for salmonella

:

EUR 5 per test;

(f)

:

for the compensation to be paid to owners for the value of

:

(a)

Classical swine fever submitted by Bulgaria, Germany, France, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia are hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011;

(b)

African swine fever submitted by Italy is hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011.

(a)

shall include a lump sum of EUR 0,5 per domestic pig sampled and of EUR 5 per wild boar sampled;

(b)

shall be at the rate of 50 % of the costs to be incurred:

(c)

shall not exceed the following:

(a)

shall include a lump sum of 0,5 EUR per domestic pig sampled;

(b)

shall be at the rate of 50 % of the cost of laboratory tests; and

(c)

shall not exceed EUR 730 000.

(a)

shall include a lump sum of EUR 0,5 per poultry sampled and EUR 5 per wild bird sampled;

(b)

shall be at the rate of 50 % of the costs to be incurred by each Member State for the costs of carrying out laboratory tests; and

(c)

shall not exceed the following:

(a)

:

ELISA test

:

EUR 2 per test;

(b)

:

agar gel immune diffusion test

:

EUR 1,2 per test;

(c)

:

HI test for H5/H7

:

EUR 12 per test;

(d)

:

virus isolation test

:

EUR 40 per test;

(e)

:

PCR test

:

EUR 20 per test.

(a)

shall include a lump sum of 0,5 EUR per domestic animal sampled;

(b)

shall be at the rate of 100 % of the costs to be incurred by each Member State referred to in paragraph 1 for the carrying out of:

(c)

shall be at the rate of 50 % of the cost incurred by each Member State for:

(d)

shall not exceed the following:

(a)

:

for tests carried out in bovine animals

:

EUR 8 per test;

(b)

:

for tests carried out in ovine and caprine animals

:

EUR 25 per test;

(c)

:

for confirmatory and primary molecular discriminatory tests

:

EUR 175 per test;

(d)

:

for genotyping tests

:

EUR 10 per test;

(e)

:

for culled bovine animals

:

EUR 500 per animal;

(f)

:

for culled sheep or goats

:

EUR 70 per animal.

(a)

shall include a lump sum of EUR 5 per wild animal sampled;

(b)

shall be at the rate of 75 % of the costs to be incurred by each Member State referred to in paragraph 1 for the cost of:

(c)

shall not exceed the following:

(a)

:

for a serological test

:

EUR 12 per test;

(b)

:

for a test to detect tetracycline in bone

:

EUR 12 per test;

(c)

:

for a fluorescent antibody test (FAT)

:

EUR 18 per test;

(d)

:

for the purchase of oral vaccine plus baits

:

EUR 0,60 per dose;

(e)

:

for the distribution of oral vaccine plus baits

:

EUR 0,35 per dose;

(f)

:

for the purchase of parenteral vaccine

:

EUR 1 per dose;

(g)

:

for the administration of rabies vaccines to livestock animals

:

EUR 1,50 per animal vaccinated, regardless of the number of doses used.

(a)

be granted only for the costs of the purchase and of the distribution of oral vaccine plus baits;

(b)

be at the rate of 100 %; and

(c)

not exceed EUR 250 000.

(a)

:

for the purchase of oral vaccine plus baits

:

EUR 0,60 per dose;

(b)

:

for the distribution of oral vaccine plus baits

:

EUR 0,35 per dose.

(a)

shall include a lump sum of EUR 5 per wild animal sampled;

(b)

shall be at the rate of 75 % of the costs to be incurred by each Member State referred to in paragraph 1 for the cost of:

(c)

shall not exceed the following for the year 2011:

(a)

:

for a serological test

:

EUR 12 per test;

(b)

:

for a test to detect tetracycline in bone

:

EUR 12 per test;

(c)

:

for a fluorescent antibody test (FAT)

:

EUR 18 per test;

(d)

:

for the purchase of oral vaccine plus baits

:

EUR 0,60 per dose;

(e)

:

for the distribution of oral vaccine plus baits

:

EUR 0,35 per dose;

(f)

:

for the purchase of parenteral vaccine

:

EUR 1 per dose;

(g)

:

for the administration of rabies vaccines to livestock animals

:

EUR 1,50 per animal vaccinated, regardless of the number of doses used.

(a)

be granted only for the costs for the purchase and the distribution of oral vaccine plus baits;

(b)

be at the rate of 100 %; and

(c)

not exceed EUR 1 100 000 for the year 2011.

(a)

:

for the purchase of oral vaccine plus baits

:

EUR 0,60 per dose;

(b)

:

for the distribution of oral vaccine plus baits

:

EUR 0,35 per dose.

(a)

the slaughter or culling of the animal;

(b)

the destruction of the products; or

(c)

the presentation of the completed claim by the owner.

(a)

implement the programmes in accordance with the relevant provisions of Union law, including rules on competition and on the award of public contracts;

(b)

bring into force by 1 January 2011 at the latest the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary for implementing the programmes;

(c)

forward to the Commission by 31 July 2011 at the latest, the intermediate technical and financial reports for the programmes, in accordance with Article 27(7)(a) of Decision 2009/470/EC, covering the period from 1 January 2011 to 30 June 2011;

(d)

only for the programmes referred to in Article 8, report to the Commission the positive and negative results of investigations detected during their surveillance of poultry and wild birds through the Commission on-line system, every six months, by submitting those results within a period of four weeks following the end of the last month covered by the report;

(e)

forward an annual detailed technical report to the Commission for the programmes in accordance with Article 27(7)(b) of Decision 2009/470/EC by 30 April 2012 at the latest on the technical execution of the programme concerned accompanied by justifying evidence as to the costs paid by the Member State and the results attained during the period from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011;

(f)

implement the programmes efficiently;

(g)

do not submit further requests for other contributions from the Union for those measures, and have not previously submitted such requests.