G/AG/N/EU/78  
 
14 June 2022 
(22-4600) Page: 1/4 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated  13 June  2022, is being circulated at the request of the delegation 
of the European Union . The notification concerns new or modified domestic support measures 
exempt from reduction ( Table DS:2). 
 
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The notification concerns new or modified domestic support measures exempt from re duction 
(Table  DS:2) in the field of vet erinary and phytosanitary measures.  
 
 
 
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  Table DS:2   
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT: EUROPEAN UNION  
Notification under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:  
New or modified domestic support measures exempt from reduction  
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(1) FULL TITLE OF MEASURE:  
Establishing a programme  for the internal market, competitiveness of enterprises, including small 
and medium -sized enterprises, the area of plants, animals, food and feed, and European statistics 
(Single Market Programme)  
(2) DOMESTIC LEGISLATION REFERENC E: 
REGULATION (EU) 2021/690 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL . 
establishing a programme for the internal market, competitiveness of enterprises, including small 
and medium -sized enterprises, the area of plants, animals, food and feed, and Europ ean statistics 
(Single Market Programme) and repealing Regulations (EU) No 99/2013, (EU) No 1287/2013, 
(EU) No 254/2014 and (EU) No 652/2014 . 
(3) DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MEASURE WITH REFERENCE TO CRITERIA:  
This Regulation includes a continuation of the Uni on's current measures currently notified within the 
phytosanitary and veterinary field as far as pest, disease prevention and eradication.   
The specific objectives of the Programme are spelled out in Article 3 par 2 (e) and is as follow:  
• contributing to a  high level of health and safety for humans, animals and plants in plant, animal, 
food and feed areas,  inter alia , by preventing, detecting and eradicating animal diseases and 
plant pests, including by means of emergency  measures that are taken in the even t of largescale 
crisis situations and unforeseeable events affecting animal or plant  health, and by supporting 
the improvement of the welfare of animals, the fight against antimicrobial resistance and 
the development of sustainable food production and cons umption, as well as by stimulating the 
exchange of best practices  between stakeholders in those fields;  
As spelled out in Article  16(4) of this Regulation, the measures within the veterinary and 
phytosanitary field shall be implemented through annual work programmes. The work programmes 
implement the specific objective referred to in Article  3(2)(e) through actions as set out in 
Article  8(8) and Annex  I. The annual work programme is adopted by the Commission by means of 
implementing acts . 
The content of Annex  1 is spelled out below in point 7 of this notification.  
The work programmes for 2021 and 2022 has been published in the following decisions:  
• Work  programme 2021  COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION C(2021) 3046 final - on the 
financing of th e Programme for Single Market, competitiveness of enterprises, including small 
and medium sized enterprises, and European Statistics and the adoption of the work programme 
for 2021 -2024. 
• Work programme  2022  COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION - C(2022) 724 fi nal - on the 
financing of the Programme for the internal market, competitiveness of enterprises, including 
small and medium sized enterprises, the area of plants, animals, food and feed and European 
Statistics and the adoption of the work programme for 202 2. 
The spending under these measures will be notified under paragraph  2(b) of Annex  2 of the 
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  (4) COST OF MEASURE:  
EUR 1 680 000 000 over the period 2021 to 2027 (Article 4 on Regulation 2021/690).  
Work programme for 2021 included  EUR 220.7 million (Article 2, point (n) in C(2022) 724 final.  
Work programme for 2022 included EUR 225.8 million (Article 2, point (m) in C(2022) 724 final.  
(5) DATE OF ENTRY INTO EFFECT:  
1 January 2021.  
(6) PERIOD OF APPLICATION:  
The years 2021 to 2027. 
(7) PRODUCTS TO PRINCIPALLY BENEFIT (IF ANY INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT(S)):  
The measures covered by this notification concerns all phytosanitary and veterinary expendiditure 
and are not intended to support any individual or specific products.  
According to Annex  1 of Regulation 2021/690  the following measures will be eligible for 
financing:  
Implementation of veterinary and phytosanitary emergency measures.  
1.1.  Veterinary and phytosanitary emergency measures to be taken as a result of the official 
confirmation of the  occurrence of one of the animal diseases or zoonoses listed in Annex  III or of 
the official confirmation of the presence of plant pests or if there is a direct threat to the human, 
animal or plant health status of the Union.  
The measure s referred to in the first paragraph shall be implemented immediately and their 
application shall comply with the provisions laid down in relevant Union law.  
1.2.  As regards phytosanitary emergencies, the following measures taken by member States 
against an out break of pests in a particular area:  
a. eradication and prevention measures against a Union quarantine pest, taken by the 
competent authority of a member State pursuant to Article  17 of Regulation 
(EU) 2016/2031 or pursuant to the Union measures adopted in ac cordance with 
Article  28(1) or (3) of that Regulation;  
b. eradication and prevention measures taken by the competent authority of a member State 
pursuant to Article  29(1) or 30(4) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 against a pest not listed 
as a Union quarantine pe st but which may qualify as a Union quarantine pest in accordance 
with the criteria referred to in that Regulation;  
c. additional protective measures taken against the spread of a pest, against which Union 
measures have been adopted in accordance with Article  28(1) and Article  30(1) of 
Regulation (EU)  2016/2031, other than the eradication and prevention measures referred 
to in points (a) and (b) of this point, where those measures are essential to protect the 
Union against further spread of that pest.  
1.3.  Union funding  may also be provided for the following measures:  
1.3.1. Protection or prevention measures taken in the case of a direct threat to the health status of 
the Union as a result of the occurrence or development, in the territory of a third country, a member 
State or an overseas country or territory, of one of the animal diseases or zoonoses listed in 
Annex  III as well as protection measures or other relevant activities, taken in support of the plant 
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  1.3.2. Measures referred t o in this Annex carried out by two or more member States which 
collaborate closely to control an animal disease or plant pest outbreak;  
1.3.3. The establishment of stocks of biological products intended for the control of the animal 
diseases and zoonoses l isted in Annex  III, where the Commission, at the request of a member State, 
considers establishment of such stocks necessary in that member State;  
1.3.4. The establishment of stocks of biological products or the acquisition of vaccine doses if the 
occurren ce or the development in a third country or member State of one of the animal diseases or 
zoonoses listed in Annex  III might constitute a threat to the Union;  
1.3.5. In the event of a suspected outbreak of an animal disease or the appearance of plant pests , 
intensified checks and monitoring within the Union and at its external borders, where needed;  
1.3.6. Measures to monitor the appearance of known as well as emerging, previously unknown 
animal diseases and plant pests . 
 
 
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