2000/781/EC: Commission Decision of 28 November 2000 amending Decision 2000/293/EC on financial aid from the Community for the operation of certain Community reference laboratories in the field of animal health and live animals in relation to rabies (notified under document number C(2000) 3583) (Only the English text is authentic)
Date: 2000-11-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, animal disease, financial aid, live animal, rabies, research body

L 309/36

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

9.12.2000

COMMISSION DECISION

of 28 November 2000

amending Decision 2000/293/EC on financial aid from the Community for the operation of certain
Community reference laboratories in the field of animal health and live animals in relation to rabies

(notified under document number C(2000) 3583)

(Only the English text is authentic)

(2000/781/EC)

(5)

(6)

For budgetary reasons, Community assistance should be
granted for a period of six months.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2000/293/EC is amended as follows:

The following Article is inserted after Article 8:

‘Article 8a

1.
The Community grants financial assistance to France
for the functions and duties to be carried out by the
laboratory of the AFSSA at Nancy, France, referred to in
Annex II to Council Decision 2000/258/EC.

2.
The Community's financial assistance shall amount to
a maximum of EUR 40 000 for the period 1 July to 31
December 2000.’

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.

Done at Brussels, 28 November 2000.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

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:

(1)

(2)

(3)

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.

Commission Decision 2000/293/EC of 6 April 2000, on
financial aid from the Community for the operation of
certain Community reference laboratories in the field of
animal health and live animals (3) provides financial
assistance to Community reference laboratories having
functions and duties in relation to the control of African
horse sickness, avian influenza, classical swine fever,
Newcastle disease, swine vesicular disease, fish diseases,
diseases affecting bivalve molluscs and the assessment of
breeding of bovine species.

tests to monitor

Council Decision 2000/258/EC of 20 March 2000
designating a specific institute responsible for estab-
lishing the criteria necessary for standardising the sero-
logical
rabies
vaccines (4) contains functions and duties to be carried
out by the Laboratory of
the Agence Française de
Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments de Nancy (AFSSA,
Nancy), France.

the effectiveness of

(4)

Community financial assistance shall be granted to the
AFSSA Laboratory at Nancy.

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19.
(2) OJ L 168, 2.7.1994, p. 31.
(3) OJ L 95, 15.4.2000, p. 40.
(4) OJ L 79, 30.3.2000, p. 40.