1999/221/EC: Commission Decision of 9 March 1999 on a Community financial contribution towards the eradication of bluetongue in Greece (notified under document number C(1999) 507) (Only the Greek text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1999-03-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, EU financing, Greece, animal disease, health control, sheep

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 9 March 1999

on a Community financial contribution towards the eradication of bluetongue in
Greece

(notified under document number C(1999) 507)

(Only the Greek text is authentic)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(1999/221/EC)

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 3 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

outbreaks of bluetongue occurred on several islands
of the Dodecanese in November and December
1998;

the island of Samos has since been infected by the
disease;

the provisions
concerning slaughtering entire
infected flocks are not suited to the particular case
of bluetongue because of the way in which it is
transmitted;

in the first instance emergency measures had to be
taken;

a progress report on the implementation of the
measures in question up to 8 January 1999 has
been submitted by the Greek authorities and
contribution
whereas

a Community

financial

(1) OJ L 224, 18. 8. 1990, p. 19.
(2) OJ L 168, 2. 7. 1994, p. 31.

towards the cost of the measures should be envis-
aged;

the arrangements put in place will be reviewed in
the light of
the sero-surveillance
programme;

the results of

the conditions for Community financial assistance
have been met;

the measures provided for in this Decision are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Veter-
inary Committee,

(6)

(7)

(8)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

this Decision,

For the purposes of
‘animals affected'
means animals with clinical symptoms of the disease and
‘animals infected or suspected of being affected or infec-
ted' means animals which have reacted positively to a
serological test.

For the eradication of the bluetongue outbreak in Greece,
the Community financial contribution towards the cost of
the measures implemented up to 8 January 1999, up to a
maximum amount of EUR 0,3 million shall be:

— 50 % of the costs incurred by Greece in compen-
sating owners for the slaughter and destruction of the
animals affected,
suspected of being
affected or infected,

infected or

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— 50 % of the costs incurred by Greece in disinfesting
the infected holdings and the holdings which could
be exposed to the risk of infection because of their
location,

— 50 % of the costs incurred by Greece for the sero-
surveillance programme provided for in Article 2(1).

Article 2

shall

Greece

sero-surveillance
implement
1.
programme to ensure detection of the disease in accord-
ance with the Annex to this Decision.

a

(a) an epidemiological report on each holding where

slaughtering has taken place;

(b) a financial report listing in particular the beneficiaries
the number, species and cat-
and their addresses,
egories of animals slaughtered, their date of slaughter,
the amount paid out (excluding VAT) and the date of
payment;

(c) a report certifying implementation of the measures

laid down in Articles 2, 3 and 4.

Article 7

2.
Greece shall notify the Commission and the other
Member States of the results of the above programme
before 1 April 1999.

Applications for payment, together with the supporting
documents referred to in Article 6, shall be submitted to
the Commission before 1 November 1999.

Article 3

Article 8

Greece shall prohibit

1.
the departure of receptive
species of animals, their sperm, eggs and embryos from
the prefectures of Dodekanisa and Samos.

Greece shall make the movement of

receptive
2.
animals within the prefectures of Dodekanisa and Samos
subject to authorisation from the veterinary services.

Article 4

shall

Greece
disinfestation
programme, focusing in particular on the means of trans-
port.

implement

general

a

The Commission may carry out on-site checks in
1.
collaboration with the competent national authorities to
ensure that the assisted measures have been implemented
and the relevant expenditure incurred.

The Commission shall inform the Member States of the
outcome of these checks.

2.
Articles 8 and 9 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the common
agricultural policy (1) shall apply mutatis mutandis.

Article 9

This Decision shall apply until 1 May 1999. It shall be
reconsidered before 1 April 1999.

Article 5

The provisions of Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4 shall apply only in
the prefectures of Dodekanisa and Samos.

Article 10

This Decision is addressed to the Hellenic Republic.

Article 6

Done at Brussels, 9 March 1999.

1.
The Community financial contribution shall be
granted after supporting documents have been submitted.

The supporting documents referred to in paragraph

2.
1 shall include:

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13.

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ANNEX

The sero-surveillance programme to detect seropositive animals shall cover:

— all animals of receptive species in the infected villages,

— all bovine animals and 10 % of the sheep and goats on all the other holdings in the prefectures of

Dodekanisa and Samos.