2002/798/EC: Commission Decision of 14 October 2002 on the list of programmes for the monitoring of TSE qualifying for a financial contribution from the Community in 2003 (notified under document number C(2002) 3878)
Date: 2002-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU programme, animal disease, disease prevention, health control, shareholding, veterinary inspection

15.10.2002

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 277/25

COMMISSION DECISION

of 14 October 2002

on the list of programmes for the monitoring of TSE qualifying for a financial contribution from
the Community in 2003

(notified under document number C(2002) 3878)

(2002/798/EC)

Certain programmes for 2003 were submitted to the
Commission after the limit of 1 June, this being the date
specified in Decision 90/424/EEC. In view of the impor-
tance of these measures for the protection of public and
animal health, as well as the relatively recent introduc-
tion of these monitoring programmes compared with
the traditional disease eradication programmes, and the
in all
obligatory application of
Member States, these programmes should be approved.
It is understood that all future applications must respect
the established time limits.

these programmes

(8)

(9)

is

therefore

appropriate

list of
It
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 accor-
dance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on
the Food Chain and Animal Health,

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 2003.

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, 14 October 2002.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(7)

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)

(5)

(6)

According to Article 3(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No
1258/1999 (3), programmes
the monitoring and
eradication of animal diseases shall be financed under
the Guarantee Section of
financial
control purposes, Articles 8 and 9 of Regulation (EC) No
1258/1999 apply.

the EAGGF;

for

for

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 1494/2002 (5), sets
out rules for monitoring transmissible spongiform ence-
phalopathies
and caprine
animals.

in bovine, ovine

(TSEs)

In drawing up the list of programmes for the monitoring
of TSE qualifying for a financial contribution from the
Community for 2003, 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 2003.

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.

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19.
(2) OJ L 203, 23.7.2001, p. 16.
(3) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.
(4) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 225, 22.8.2002, p. 3.

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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)

TSE

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

4 719 000

2 977 000

20 723 000

975 000

5 984 000

30 554 000

9 577 000

6 952 000

198 000

6 312 000

2 455 000

1 059 000

1 402 000

440 000

Total

94 327 000