1999/53/EC: Commission Decision of 8 January 1999 amending Decision 98/587/EC on financial aid from the Community for the operation of certain Community reference laboratories in the veterinary field (notified under document number C(1998) 4544) (Only the Spanish, Danish, German, English, French, Italian, Dutch and Swedish texts are authentic)
Date: 1999-01-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, animal disease, financial aid, health control, research body, veterinary inspection

L 17/54

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

22. 1. 1999

COMMISSION DECISION

of 8 January 1999

amending Decision 98/587/EC on financial aid from the Community for the
operation of certain Community reference laboratories in the veterinary field

(notified under document number C(1998) 4544)

(Only the Spanish, Danish, German, English, French, Italian, Dutch and Swedish texts are
authentic)

(1999/53/EC)

Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Veterinary
Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In Decision 98/587/EC the following Article is

1.
included:

‘Article 15A

1.
The Community grants financial assistance to
the United Kingdom for the functions and duties to
be carried out by the Pirbright Laboratory, United
Kingdom, for swine vesicular disease referred to in
Annex III to Directive 92/119/EEC.

The Community’s

assistance shall
2.
amount to a maximum of ECU 55 000 for the period
from 1 January to 31 December 1998.'

financial

2.
In Article 16(b) of Decision 98/587/EC, after the
words ‘supporting documents' the following words are
included:

‘and a technical report'.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Denmark,
the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kingdom of Spain,
the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Kingdom
of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 8 January 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Decision 90/424/EEC of 26
June 1990 on expenditure in the veterinary field (1), as last
amended by Decision 94/370/EC (2), and in particular
Article 28(2) thereof,

Whereas Community financial aid shall be granted to the
Community reference laboratories in the veterinary field
designated by the Community to assist them in carrying
out their functions and duties;

Whereas by Commission Decision 98/587/EC of 9
October 1998 on financial aid from the Community for
the operation of certain Community reference laborat-
ories in the veterinary field (3) provisions were established
for providing financial assistance to certain Community
reference laboratories; whereas these provisions must also
include the submission to the Commission of a technical
report on the accomplishment of the functions and duties
by each of these laboratories;

Whereas Council Directive 92/119/EEC of 17 December
1992 introducing general Community measures for the
control of certain animal diseases and specific measures
relating to swine vesicular disease (4), as last amended by
Decision 95/1/EC, Euratom, ECSC (5), designates
the
Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, United Kingdom,
as the Community reference laboratory for swine vesicular
disease; whereas the said Directive also defines the func-
tions and duties to be carried out;

Whereas Community assistance must be conditional on
the accomplishment of those functions and duties by the
laboratory concerned;

Whereas, for budgetary reasons, Community assistance
should be granted for a period of one year;

(1) OJ L 224, 18. 8. 1990, p. 19.
(2) OJ L 168, 2. 7. 1994, p. 31.
(3) OJ L 282, 20. 10. 1998, p. 73.
(4) OJ L 62, 15. 3. 1993, p. 69.
(5) OJ L 1, 1. 1. 1995, p. 1.