2001/730/EC: Commission Decision of 15 October 2001 on the list of programmes for the monitoring of TSE qualifying for a financial contribution from the Community in 2002 (notified under document number C(2001) 3151)
Date: 2001-10-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU programme, animal disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, disease prevention, financial aid, sheep

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 15 October 2001

on the list of programmes for the monitoring of TSE qualifying for a financial contribution from
the Community in 2002

(notified under document number C(2001) 3151)

(2001/730/EC)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

The programmes on the list set out in this Decision will
have to be approved individually at a later date.

The Commission has examined each of the programmes
submitted by the Member States from both the veter-
inary and the financial point of view.

is

therefore

appropriate

It
list of
programmes qualifying for a financial contribution from
the Community and to set the maximum amount of
those contributions.

to adopt

the

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1.
The programmes for the monitoring of TSE (BSE and
scrapie) listed in the Annex hereto shall qualify for a financial
contribution from the Community in 2002.

For each programme as referred to in paragraph 1, the
the Community financial

2.
proposed maximum amount of
contribution shall be as set out in the Annex.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 15 October 2001.

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 2001/572/EC (2), and in particular Article 24(5)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

According to Article 3(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No
1258/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the financing of the
the
common agricultural policy (3), programmes for
monitoring and eradication of animal diseases shall be
financed under the Guarantee Section of the EAGGF; for
financial control purposes, Articles 8 and 9 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 1258/1999 apply.

Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parlia-
ment and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down
rules for the prevention, control and eradication of
certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (4), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1326/2001 (5), sets
out new rules for monitoring transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies (TSEs)
in bovine, ovine and caprine
animals.

In drawing up the list of programmes for the monitoring
of TSE qualifying for a financial contribution from the
Community for 2002, and the proposed maximum
amount of the contribution for each programme, both
the interest of each programme for the Community and
the volume of available appropriations must be taken
into account.

The Member States have supplied the Commission with
the information enabling it to assess the interest for the
Community of providing a financial contribution to the
programmes for 2002.

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19.
(2) OJ L 203, 28.7.2001, p. 16.
(3) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.
(4) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 177, 30.6.2001, p. 60.

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TSE

ANNEX

List of programmes for the monitoring of TSE

Maximum amount of the Community financial contribution

Disease

Member State

Rate-purchase of
test kits

Maximum amount
(in EUR)

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

4 850 000

2 860 000

20 710 000

1 300 000

10 700 000

34 900 000

10 630 000

10 850 000

350 000

5 800 000

1 640 000

2 750 000

500 000

600 000

5 560 000

Total

114 000 000