2002/206/EC: Commission Decision of 11 March 2002 on financial aid from the Community for the operation of certain Community reference laboratories in the field of veterinary public health (biological hazards) for the year 2002 (notified under document number C(2002) 898)
Date: 2002-03-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, EU aid, financial aid, foodstuff, health control, research body

12.3.2002

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 11 March 2002

on financial aid from the Community for the operation of certain Community reference labora-
tories in the field of veterinary public health (biological hazards) for the year 2002

(notified under document number C(2002) 898)

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

(2002/206/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 2001/572/EC (2), and in particular Article 28(2)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Community financial aid should be granted to the
Community reference laboratories designated to carry
out the functions and duties laid down in the following
Directives, Decisions and Regulation:

— 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),

— Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of

the European
Parliament and of the Council 22 May 2001 laying
down rules for the prevention, control and erad-
spongiform
ication

transmissible

certain

of

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19.
(2) OJ L 203, 28.7.2001, p. 16.
(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.

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

encephalopathies (10), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1326/2001 (11).

The work programmes and corresponding budget esti-
mates submitted by the Community reference labora-
tories for 2002 have been assessed by the Commission.

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.

As provided for in Article 3(2) of Council Regulation EC
No 1258/1999 (12),
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 Regu-
lation EC No 1258/1999 apply.

(6)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Community hereby grants financial assistance to
1.
France for the functions and duties to be carried out by the
Laboratoire d'études et de recherches sur l'hygiène et la qualité
des aliments, of the Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des
aliments (formerly the Laboratoire central d'hygiène alimen-
taire), 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.

The financial assistance is hereby set at a maximum of
2.
EUR 146 000 for the period 1 January 2002 to 31 December
2002.

(10) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1.
(11) OJ L 177, 30.6.2001, p. 60.
(12) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.

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Article 2

Article 6

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

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 Veterinary Laboratories Agency,
Addlestone, for the monitoring of transmissible spongiform
Encephalopathies referred to in Chapter B of Annex X to
Regulation (EC) No 999/2001.

2.
The financial assistance is hereby set at a maximum of
EUR 143 000 for the period 1 January 2002 to 31 December
2002.

2.
The financial assistance is hereby set at a maximum of
EUR 426 000 for the period 1 January 2002 to 31 December
2002.

Article 3

Article 7

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

2.
The financial assistance is hereby set at a maximum of
EUR 146 000 for the period 1 January 2002 to 31 December
2002.

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 Area de Sanidad, Vigo,
for the control of marine biotoxins referred to in Article 5 of
Decision 93/383/EEC.

2.
The financial assistance is hereby set at a maximum of
EUR 90 000 for the period 1 January 2002 to 31 December
2002.

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, for the monitoring of bacter-
iological and viral contamination of bivalve molluscs referred
to in Article 4 of Decision 1999/313/EC.

2.
The financial assistance is hereby set at a maximum of
EUR 110 000 for the period 1 January 2002 to 31 December
2002.

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 State;

(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 and that the
authorities provide all necessary information within the dead-
line fixed.

If the deadline is not respected, the Community financial assis-
tance shall be reduced by 25 % on 1 May, 50 % on 1 June,
75 % on 1 July and 100 % on 1 September.

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 of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 11 March 2002.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission