21.11.86 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 295/3 
II 
(Preparatory Acts) 
COMMISSION 
Proposal for a Council Decision introducing supplementary Community financial measures for 
the eradication of classical swine fever 
COM(86) 555 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 5 November 1986) 
(86/C 295/04) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 
thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par­
liament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee, 
Whereas Council Directive 80/1096/EEC of 11 
November 1980 introducing financial measures for the 
eradication of classical swine fever (*), as last amended 
by Regulation (EEC) No 3768/85 (2), provides that the 
period for carrying out the common measures is five 
years; 
Whereas, because of a serious outbreak of classical swine 
fever in their territory during that period, certain 
Member States have experienced difficulties in 
completing their eradication programme; 
Whereas the disease has, thanks to the measures adopted 
to combat it, in particular the setting-up of vaccination 
areas, been brought under control; whereas, therefore, 
the Member States concerned could continue to 
implement the control measures with a view to making 
the territories in question free from classical swine fever, 
and whereas a further five-year period is therefore 
required; 
Whereas it is necessary to take into account the measures 
applied by certain Member States, in particular the 
reintroduction of systematic emergency vaccination in 
large parts of their territory, as well as those taken by 
Member States which had been free but were reinfected; Whereas the establishment and maintenance of officially 
swine-fever-free Member States or parts of Member 
States will contribute to free movement of live pigs and 
pigmeat as well as to improvements in the productivity of 
the breeding herds and, as a result, to the income of 
those working in this sector; 
Whereas the Community must be in a position to 
ascertain that the provisions adopted by the Member 
States for the implementation of measures which are 
partly financed by the Community effectively contribute 
to the attainment of the objectives which have been set; 
whereas provision should therefore be made for a 
procedure establishing close cooperation between the 
Member States and the Commission and regular on-the-
spot checks designed to make sure that the programmes 
are being implemented, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: 
Article 1 
1. Supplementary Community financial measures are 
hereby introduced for the eradication of classical swine 
fever. 
2. The measures provided for by: 
— Council Directive 80/217/EEC of 22 January 1980 
introducing Community measures for the control of 
classical swine fever (3), and 
— Council Directive 80/1095/EEC of 11 November 
1980 laying down conditions designed to render and 
keep the territory of the Community free from 
classical swine fever (4) 
shall, in the framework of the supplementary measures, 
be eligible for financial aid from the Community. 
0) OJ No L 325, 1. 12. 1980, p. 5. 
(2) OJ No L 362, 31. 12. 1985, p. 8. O OJNoL47, 2. 2. 1980, p. 11. 
(4) OJ No L 375, 1. 12. 1980, p. 5. 
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Article 2 
1. The period during which the Community shall 
contribute to the cost of the measures referred to in 
Article 1 shall be such that the total duration of the 
measures introduced pursuant to Decision 80/1096/EEC 
and the supplementary measures is 10 years. 
2. The estimated amount of aid to be charged to the 
chapter of the Community budget covering expenditure 
in the agricultural sector for the period covered by the 
supplementary measures referred to in paragraph 1 is 
14,6 ECU. 
Article 3 
1. Expenditure by Member States on action taken in 
implementation of the new plan referred to in Article 5 
shall be subsidized by the Community within the limits 
specified in this Article. 
2. The Community shall reimburse the Member States 
under the new plan referred to in Article 5: 
(a) up to 50 % of the cost incurred in respect of 
compensation to owners for the slaughter and 
destruction of pigs in areas of the territory of the 
Member States where an outbreak of the disease has 
been recorded. 
However, such reimbursement shall apply only in the 
case of pigs slaughtered in the first 20 outbreaks 
recorded each year in the territory of each Member 
State. 
No financial aid shall be granted if, at the beginning 
of the outbreak on the holding concerned, vacci­
nation against classical swine fever was required 
under the national provisions applicable; 
(b) up to 50 % of the cost incurred in respect of 
compensation to owners for the slaughter and de­
struction of pigs in connection with systematic sero­
logical screening campaigns carried out with a view to 
implementing the new plan referred to in Article 5; 
(c) up to 0,125 ECU per dose of vaccine used in the 
event of emergency vaccination: 
— in a Member State recognized as being officially 
free from classical swine fever in accordance with 
Article 7 (1) of Directive 80/1095/EEC, 
— in a region recognized as being officially free 
from classical swine fever in accordance with 
Article 7 (2) of Directive 80/1095/EEC, 
— in a Member State where systematic vaccination 
has been prohibited for at least three months, 
— in any part of the territory of a Member State 
where systematic vaccination has been prohibited 
for at least three months. 
Reimbursement shall in all cases apply only in 
respect of vaccinations performed during a one-year 
period after the beginning of vaccination operations 
in the part of the territory concerned; (d) up to 0,125 ECU per dose of vaccine used in the 
event of vaccination performed in certain specified 
regions in pursuance of the new plan referred to 
in Article 5, it being understood that such 
reimbursement will be limited to the first two years 
of application of the plan; 
(e) up to 1 ECU per sample examined in a laboratory in 
connection with: 
— detection tests for classical swine-fever carried 
out with a view to determining holdings or 
regions which are officially swine-fever-free, or 
— tests carried out with a view to ascertaining the 
persistence of the swine fever virus in holdings or 
regions in which vaccination against swine fever 
is performed, or 
— tests carried out in order to diagnose the disease. 
3. Paragraph 2 shall also apply in respect of measures 
taken immediately following an outbreak of classical 
swine fever in a Member State which is officially free 
from this disease within the meaning of Article 7 (1) of 
Directive 80/1095/EEC. 
4. Provisions adopted by the Member States in 
connection with the new plan referred to in Article 5 and 
the measures applied in the case specified in paragraph 3 
of this Article shall not be eligible for a financial contri­
bution from the Community unless a Decision in 
accordance with Article 5 (3) has been adopted 
approving that plan or those measures. 
5. Detailed rules for the application of this Article 
shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid 
down in Article 13 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 
729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the common 
agricultural policy ('). 
Article 4 
1. Applications for payment shall relate to expenditure 
incurred by the Member States in the course of a 
calendar year and shall be submitted to the Commission 
before 1 July of the following year. 
2. Article 7 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 shall 
apply to Commission Decisions on Community financing 
of this Decision. 
3. Detailed rules for the application of this Article 
shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid 
down in Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70. 
Article 5 
1. Member States shall forward to the Commission 
the new plan provided for in Article 3a of Directive 
80/1095/EEC before implementation of the plan and 
not later than . . . However, this deadline shall not be 
applied to a Member State which has been officially free 
C) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13. 
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from classical swine fever but which, as a result of an 
outbreak of the disease and the latter's persistence, lost 
that status during the period for carrying out the 
measures provided for in Article 2(1). 
2. Member States shall inform the Commission as 
soon as possible of the measures taken under Article 3 
(3) should there be an outbreak of swine fever. 
3. The Commission shall examine the plans or 
measures forwarded in accordance with paragraphs 1 
and 2 to determine whether, in terms of their conformity 
with the rules referred to in Article 1 and in the light of 
the objectives of those rules, the conditions for a 
financial contribution by the Community have been met. 
Within two months following receipt of the plans or 
measures, the Commission shall submit a draft Decision 
'to the Standing Veterinary Committee. The Committee 
shall deliver its opinion in accordance with the procedure 
laid down in Article 7. The Fund Committee shall be 
consulted on the financial aspects. 
4. The Commission shall make regular on-the-spot 
checks to verify from a veterinary viewpoint whether the 
plans are being applied. 
Member States shall take the necessary steps to facilitate 
these checks and, in particular, to ensure that the experts 
are supplied at their request with all the information and 
documentation needed for assessing the execution of the 
plans. 
The general provisions for implementing this Article, 
especially as regards the frequency and method of 
carrying out the checks referred to in the first subpara­
graph, the rules governing the appointment of the 
veterinary experts and the procedure which the latter must 
follow when drawing up their report, shall be laid down in 
accordance with the prodecure set out in Article 7. 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 
thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Article 6 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 129/78 of 24 January 
1978 on the exchange rates to be applied for the 
purposes of the common agricultural structures polity (x) 
and Articles 8 and 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 
shall apply mutatis mutandis. 
Article 7 
1. Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to 
be followed, matters shall be referred without delay by 
its chairman, either on his own initiative or at the request 
of a Member State, to the Standing Veterinary 
Committee (hereinafter called 'the Committee') set up by 
Decision 68/361/EEC. 
2. Within the Committe the votes of the represen­
tatives of the Member States shall be weighted in the 
manner set out in Article 148 (2) of the Treaty. The 
chairman shall not vote. 
3. The Commission representative shall submit a draft 
of the measures to be adopted. The Committee shall 
deliver its opinion on the draft within a time limit which 
the chairman may lay down according to the urgency of 
the matter. The opinion shall be adopted by the majority 
laid down in Article 148 (2) of the Treaty. 
4. The Commission shall adopt the measures 
envisaged if they are in accordance with the opinion of 
the Committee. Where they are not in accordance with 
the opinion of the Committee, or if no opinion is 
delivered, the Commission shall without delay submit to 
the Council a proposal on the measures to be adopted. 
The Council shall act by a qualified majority. 
If the Council has acted within three months of the date 
on which the proposal was referred to it, the 
Commission shall adopt the proposed measures. 
Article 8 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States. 
O OJ No L 20, 25. 1. 1978, p. 16. 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par­
liament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee, Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 80/1095/EEC laying down conditions 
designed to render and keep the territory of the Community free from classical swine fever 
COM(86) 555 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 5 November 1986) 
(86/C 295/05)