1999/760/EC: Commission Decision of 8 November 1999 on financial aid from the Community for the operation of certain Community reference laboratories in the field of veterinary public health (notified under document number C(1999) 3602) (Only the Spanish, German, English, French and Dutch texts are authentic)
Date: 1999-11-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, EU aid, financial aid, public health, research body, veterinary medicine

23. 11. 1999

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 300/35

COMMISSION DECISION

of 8 November 1999

on financial aid from the Community for the operation of certain Community reference
laboratories in the field of veterinary public health

(notified under document number C(1999) 3602)

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

(1999/760/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 Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 (2), and in particular Article
28(2) thereof,

(4)

(5)

For supervisory purposes, Articles 8 and 9 of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the
financing of the common agricultural policy (10), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1287/95 (11), should
apply;

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Community financial aid should be granted to the
Community reference laboratories designated by the
Community to assist them in carrying out the functions
and duties laid down in the following Directives and
Decisions:

— Council Directive 92/46/EEC of 16 June 1992 laying
down the health rules for the production and placing
on the market of raw milk, heat-treated milk and
milk-based products (3), as last amended by Directive
96/23/EC (4),

— Council Directive 92/117/EEC of 17 December 1992
concerning measures for protection against specified
zoonoses and specified zoonotic agents in animals
and products of animal origin in order to prevent
outbreaks of
food-borne infections and intoxica-
tions (5), as last amended by Directive 1999/72/
EC (6),

— Council Decision 93/383/EEC of 14 June 1993 on
reference laboratories for the monitoring of marine
biotoxins (7), as last amended by Decision 1999/
312/EC (8),

— Council Decision 1999/313/EC of 29 April 1999 on
reference laboratories for monitoring bacteriological
and viral contamination of bivalve molluscs (9);

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1.
The Community shall grant financial assistance to France
for the functions and duties to be carried out by the Labora-
for the
toire Central d'Hygiene Alimentaire, Paris, France,
analysis and testing of milk and milk products referred to in
Annex D, Chapter II, to Directive 92/46/EEC.

The Community's

a
financial
2.
maximum of EUR 95 000 for the period from 1 January 1999
to 31 December 1999.

assistance

shall be

Article 2

The Community shall grant

1.
financial assistance to
Germany for the functions and duties to be carried out by the
für gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz and
Bundesinstitut
Veterinärmedizin (formerly the Institut für Veterinärmedizin),
Berlin, Germany, for the epidemiology of zoonoses referred to
in Annex IV, Chapter II, to Directive 92/117/EEC.

The Community's

a
financial
2.
maximum of EUR 110 000 for the period from 1 January
1999 to 31 December 1999.

assistance

shall be

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

Article 3

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19.
(2) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.
(3) OJ L 268, 14.9.1992, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 10.
(5) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 38.
(6) OJ L 210, 10.8.1999, p. 12.
(7) OJ L 166, 8.7.1993, p. 31.
(8) OJ L 120, 8.5.1999, p. 37.
(9) OJ L 120, 8.5.1999, p. 40.

1.
The Community shall grant financial assistance to the
Netherlands for the functions and duties to be carried out by
the Rĳksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, Bilthoven,
Netherlands, for salmonella referred to in Annex IV, Chapter II,
to Directive 92/117/EEC.

(10) OJ L 94, 28.4.1970, p. 13.
(11) OJ L 125, 8.6.1995, p. 1.

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The Community's

a
financial
2.
maximum of EUR 105 000 for the period from 1 January
1999 to 31 December 1999.

assistance

shall be

Article 4

1.
The Community shall grant financial assistance to Spain
for the functions and duties to be carried out by the Labora-
torio de biotoxinas marinas del Area de Sanidad, Vigo, Spain,
for the monitoring of marine biotoxins referred to in Article 5
of Decision 93/383/EEC.

The Community's

2.
a
financial
maximum of EUR 115 000 for the period from 1 January
1999 to 31 December 1999.

assistance

shall be

Article 5

1.
The Community shall grant financial assistance to the
United Kingdom for the functions and duties to be carried out
by the laboratory of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and
Aquaculture Science, Weymouth, United Kingdom,
for the
monitoring of bacteriological and viral contamination of
bivalve molluscs referred to in Article 4 of Decision 1999/
313/EC.

The Community's

2.
a
financial
maximum of EUR 40 000 for the period from 1 August 1999
to 31 December 1999.

assistance

shall be

Article 6

The Community's financial assistance shall be paid following
presentation of supporting documents and a technical report
by the recipient Member State, which must be supplied at the
latest six months after the end of the period for which financial
assistance has been granted.

Article 7

Articles 8 and 9 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 shall
apply mutatis mutandis.

Article 8

This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany,
the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Kingdom of
the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Done at Brussels, 8 November 1999.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission