2001/341/EC: Commission Decision of 19 April 2001 on financial aid from the Community for the operation of certain Community reference laboratories in the field of veterinary public health (biological hazards) (notified under document number C(2001) 1091)
Date: 2001-04-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, EU aid, financial aid, public health, research body, veterinary medicine

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Official Journal of the European Communities

3.5.2001

COMMISSION DECISION

of 19 April 2001

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

(notified under document number C(2001) 1091)

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

(2001/341/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 2001/12/EC (2), and in particular Article 28(2)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

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 by 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 certain
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).

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Community assistance must be conditional on those
functions and duties being carried out by the laboratory
concerned.

For budgetary reasons, Community assistance is granted
for a period of one year.

Article 1(2) of Commission Decision 2000/692/EC of
25 October 2000 on financial aid from the Community
for the operation of certain Community reference labo-
ratories in the field of veterinary public health (biological
hazards) (10), sets the financial assistance to France for
the functions and duties to be carried out by the Labora-
toire de l'Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des
Aliments, for the analysis and testing of milk and milk
products at a maximum of EUR 95 000 for the period
1 January 2000 to 31 December 2000. Article 1(3) of
the same Decision provides that, depending on the
results of an appraisal then under way, that amount may
be revised. The results of this appraisal were favourable
and the amount of financial aid for the period 1 January
2000 to 31 December 2000 must be brought into line
with the laboratory's expenditure during that period.

As provided for in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1258/1999, the veterinary and plant health measures
undertaken in accordance with Community rules are
financed under the Guarantee Section of the European
Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund. For financial
control purposes, Articles 8 and 9 of Regulation (EC) No
1258/1999 apply.

(7)

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

(2)

The work programmes and corresponding budget esti-
mates submitted by the Community reference labora-
tories for 2001 have been assessed by the Commission.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19.
(2) OJ L 3, 6.1.2001, p. 27.
(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.

Article 1

1.
The Community hereby grants additional financial assis-
tance to France for the functions and duties which had to be
carried out in the period 1 January 2000 to 31 December

(10) OJ L 286, 11.11.2000, p. 38.

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2000 by the Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches sur l'Hy-
giène et la Qualité des Aliments, of the Agence Française de
Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments
(formerly the Laboratoire
Central d'Hygiène Alimentaire), Maisons-Alfort, France, for the
analysis and testing of milk and milk products referred to in
Chapter II of Annex D to Directive 92/46/EEC.

2.
The Community hereby grants financial assistance to
France for the functions and duties to be carried out in the
period 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2001 by the Labora-
toire d'Etudes et de Recherches sur l'Hygiène et la Qualité des
Aliments, for the analysis and testing of milk and milk prod-
ucts referred to in Chapter II of Annex D to Directive 92/
46/EEC.

The financial assistance is hereby set at EUR 20 000 for
3.
the period 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2000 (additional
financial assistance) and at a maximum of EUR 135 000 for
the period 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2001.

Spain, for the control of marine biotoxins referred to in Article
5 of Decision 93/383/EEC.

2.
The Community's financial assistance is hereby set at
EUR 140 000 for the period 1 January 2001 to 31 December
2001.

Article 5

1.
The Community hereby grants 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.

2.
The Community's financial assistance is hereby set at a
maximum of EUR 95 000 for the period 1 January 2001 to
31 December 2001.

Article 2

Article 6

1.
The Community hereby grants financial assistance to
Germany for the functions and duties to be carried out by the
für gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz und
Bundesinstitut
Veterinärmedizin (formerly the Institut für Veterinärmedizin),
Berlin, Germany, for the epidemiology of zoonoses referred to
in Chapter 2 of Annex IV to Directive 92/117/EEC.

The Community's financial assistance is hereby set at
2.
EUR 140 000 for the period 1 January 2001 to 31 December
2001.

Article 3

1.
The Community hereby grants financial assistance to the
Netherlands for the functions and duties to be carried out by
the Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiëne, Bilt-
hoven, Netherlands,
in respect of salmonella referred to in
Chapter 2 of Annex IV to Directive 92/117/EEC.

2.
The Community's financial assistance is hereby set a
maximum of EUR 135 000 for the period 1 January 2001 to
31 December 2001.

Article 4

1.
The Community hereby grants financial assistance to
Spain for the functions and duties to be carried out by the
Laboratorio de biotoxinas marinas del Área de Sanidad, Vigo,

The Community's financial assistance shall be paid as follows:

(a) an advance of 70 % of the amount of the assistance may be
paid on application by the recipient Member States;

(b) the balance shall be paid on presentation by the recipient
Member State of supporting documents and a technical
report, which must be supplied no later than three months
after the end of the period for which financial assistance
has been granted.

The financial assistance is granted on condition that the work
programme submitted by the Community reference laboratory
for the period concerned is actually carried out.

Article 7

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 of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 19 April 2001.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission