2002/246/EC: Commission Decision of 27 March 2002 amending Decisions 2001/730/EC and 2001/854/EC on the Community's financial contribution to the Member States' TSE monitoring programmes for 2002 (notified under document number C(2002) 1266)
Date: 2002-03-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, EU programme, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, disease prevention, health control, veterinary inspection

28.3.2002

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 27 March 2002

amending Decisions 2001/730/EC and 2001/854/EC on the Community's financial contribution to
the Member States' TSE monitoring programmes for 2002

(notified under document number C(2002) 1266)

(2002/246/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 24(5)
and (6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Commission Decision 2001/730/EC (3) establishes the
list of programmes for the monitoring of TSE qualifying
for a financial contribution from the Community in
2002, as well as the proposed rate and amount of the
contribution for each programme. All Member States'
BSE and scrapie monitoring programmes are included in
that list.

Commission Decision 2001/854/EC (4) approved the
TSE monitoring programmes presented for 2002 by the
Member States.

The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) in its opinion of
18 and 19 October 2001 on the safety of small rumi-
nant products should BSE in small ruminants become
probable/confirmed recommended that a survey on the
incidence of TSEs in small ruminants should urgently be
carried out with the available rapid tests using a statisti-
cally sound sample design and size.

the European Parliament and of

In response to this recommendation, Regulation (EC) No
999/2001 of
the
Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the
prevention, control and eradication of certain trans-
missible
spongiform encephalopathies (5),
last
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 270/
2002 (6), sets out a new programme for the monitoring

as

(1) OJ L 224, 18.9.1990, p. 19.
(2) OJ L 203, 28.7.2001, p. 16.
(3) OJ L 274, 17.10.2001, p. 20.
(4) OJ L 318, 4.12.2001, p. 54.
(5) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 45, 15.2.2002, p. 4.

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

of scrapie in ovine and caprine animals to apply from 1
April 2002. Under the new monitoring programme, the
numbers of healthy slaughter and dead-on-farm animals
to be tested are substantially increased.

Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 also removes certain
derogations formerly afforded to Austria and Finland
from the requirements to test certain target groups of
animals,
the first BSE
cases in those Member States. Austria and Finland have
both requested an increase in the funding allocated to
them for TSE monitoring under Decisions 2001/730/EC
and 2001/854/EC.

following the confirmation of

In view of the expanded TSE monitoring programme
introduced by Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, it is neces-
sary to revise the maximum amount of financial partici-
pation by the Community for each programme, as set
out in Decisions 2001/730/EC and 2001/854/EC.

The estimates of the maximum amount of Community
financing allocated to each programme may have to be
adjusted during the implementation of the programmes
in order to take account of the actual needs of each
Member State. The review should however be carried
out without increasing the total amount of contribution
by the Community.

The computerised monthly report on progress of the
programmes and costs incurred as laid down in the
Annex to Decision 2001/854/EC should be adapted to
reflect the latest amendments to Annex III to Regulation
(EC) No 999/2001, made by Regulation (EC) No 270/
2002, which abolishes the derogatory sampling regime
previously established for Member States with a small
ovine and caprine population.

(9)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee
on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

15. Article 16 is replaced by the following:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 2001/730/EC is amended as set out in
Annex I to this Decision.

Decision 2001/854/EC is amended as follows:

Article 2

‘EUR 4 850 000’

‘EUR 2 860 000’

is

is

replaced

by

replaced

by

‘EUR 20 710 000’

is

replaced

by

‘EUR 1 300 000’

is

replaced

by

1. In Article

1(2)
‘EUR 4 887 000’.

2. In Article

2(2)
‘EUR 2 892 000’.

3. In Article 3(2)
‘EUR 21 077 000’.

4. In Article

4(2)
‘EUR 1 851 000’.

5. In Article 5(2)
‘EUR 11 240 000’.

6. In Article 6(2)
‘EUR 35 361 000’.

7. In Article 7(2)
‘EUR 11 136 000’.

8. In Article 8(2)
‘EUR 11 379 000’.

9. In Article 10(2)
‘EUR 6 104 000’.

‘EUR 10 700 000’

‘EUR 34 900 000’

‘EUR 10 630 000’

‘EUR 10 850 000’

‘EUR 5 800 000’

is

is

is

is

is

is

is

is

is

replaced

by

replaced

by

replaced

by

replaced

by

replaced

by

replaced

by

replaced

by

replaced

by

10. In Article 11(2)

‘EUR 1 640 000’

‘EUR 3 325 000’.

11. In Article 12(2)

‘EUR 2 750 000’

‘EUR 2 874 000’.

12. In Article

13(2)

‘EUR 500 000’

‘EUR 1 329 000’.

13. In Article

14(2)

‘EUR 600 000’

‘EUR 651 000’.

14. In Article 15(2)

‘EUR 5 560 000’

is

replaced

by

‘EUR 6 100 000’.

‘Article 16

The financial participation by the Community for the
programmes approved in Articles 1 to 15 shall be at the
rate of 100 % of the cost (VAT excluded) of the test-kits up
to a maximum of 15 EUR per test-kit for tests carried out
— between 1 January and 31 March 2002 in animals
referred to in Annex III, Chapter A, Part I, points 2, 3
and 4 and Part II, points 2, 3 and 4 of Regulation (EC)
No 999/2001,

— between 1 April and 31 December 2002 in animals
referred to in Annex III, Chapter A, Part I, points 2, 3
and 4 and Part II, points 2 and 3 of Regulation (EC) No
999/2001,

and up to the maximum amounts of money specified in
this Decision individually for each programme.’

16. In Article 17, the existing unnumbered paragraph becomes
paragraph 1 and the following paragraph 2 is added:

‘2.
The maximum amounts of financial participation by
the Community for each monitoring programme may be
reviewed in the light of the reports referred to in para-
graph 1(b) and (c). However, the total contribution by the
Community shall not exceed EUR 120 556 000.’

17. The Annex is amended as set out in Annex II to this

The present Decision shall apply from 1 April 2002.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 27 March 2002.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

replaced

by

Decision.

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The Annex to Decision 2001/730/EC is replaced by the following:

ANNEX I

‘ANNEX

List of programmes for the monitoring of TSE

Maximum amount of the Community financial contribution

Disease

Member State

Rate-purchase of test-kits

TSE

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

TOTAL

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

Maximum amount
(in EUR)

4 887 000

2 892 000

21 077 000

1 851 000

11 240 000

35 361 000

11 136 000

11 379 000

350 000

6 104 000

3 325 000

2 874 000

1 329 000

651 000

6 100 000

120 556 000’

The Annex to Decision 2001/854/EC is replaced by the following:

ANNEX II

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