2004/66/EC: Commission Decision of 30 December 2003 amending Decision 2003/126/EC as regards the financial assistance for two Community reference laboratories in the field of veterinary public health (biological risks) in Spain and the United Kingdom for the year 2003 (notified under document number C(2003) 5231)
Date: 2003-12-30
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 Union

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 30 December 2003

amending Decision 2003/126/EC as regards the financial assistance for two Community reference
laboratories in the field of veterinary public health (biological risks) in Spain and the United
Kingdom for the year 2003

(notified under document number C(2003) 5231)

(Only the Spanish and English texts are authentic)

(2004/66/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

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), and, in particu-
lar, Article 28(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Commission Decision 2003/126/EC on financial aid
from the Community for the operation of certain Com-
munity reference laboratories in the field of veterinary
for the year 2003 (2),
public health (biological risks)
grants Community financial aid to them to carry out
certain functions and duties.

The Laboratorio de biotoxinas marinas del Area de
sanidad, Vigo, Spain informed the Commission that
EUR 33 000 will not be used in the year 2003. There-
fore the annual budget should be reduced accordingly.

laboratory

In the framework of the normal tasks of the Community
reference
for TSEs, Weybridge, United
Kingdom (CRL), the Commission has asked the CRL to
carry out a comparative testing of the three rapid TSE
tests originally evaluated in 1999. Since this specific
comparative testing was not
foreseen in the annual
budget of 2003, the annual budget should be increased
accordingly to allow the CRL to perform this testing.

Rules laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No
324/2003 of 20 February 2003 establishing the elig-
ibility criteria for the expenditure of the Community
reference laboratories receiving financial assistance under
Article 28 of Decision 90/424/EEC and establishing the
procedures for the submission of expenditure and the
conduct of audits (3) should apply.

Decision 2003/126/EC should be amended accordingly.

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

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19. Decision as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 806/2003 (OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 50, 25.2.2003, p. 25. Decision as amended by Decision 2003/

332/EC (OJ L 116, 13.5.2003, p. 26.).

(3) OJ L 47, 21.2.2003, p. 14.

Article 1

Decision 2003/126/EC, is amended as follows:

1. Article 4(2) is replaced by:

The financial assistance is hereby set at a maximum of
the period 1 January 2003 to 31

‘2.
EUR 77 000 for
December 2003.’

2. Article 6(2) is replaced by:

The financial assistance is hereby set at a maximum of
the period 1 January 2003 to 31

‘2.
EUR 556 500 for
December 2003.

Within the maximum referred to in the first subparagraph
and without prejudice to the time limits laid down in Article
2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 324/2003, an amount
of EUR 170 000 shall be reserved for the project to the
development of guidelines for evaluation of BSE status of
countries using surveillance data in conjunction with expo-
sure risk assessment and shall be granted to the Community
reference laboratory for TSEs subject to:

(a) forwarding monthly

intermediate

reports on the

progress of the project;

(b) forwarding a final report by 30 September 2003 at the

latest;

(c) forwarding a final summary report, including the soft-
ware for conducting evaluations accompanied by justi-
fying evidence as to the costs incurred, by 31 December
2003.

Within the maximum referred to in the first subparagraph
and without prejudice to the time limits laid down in Article
2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 324/2003, an amount
of EUR 26 500 shall be reserved to conduct a comparative
testing of the three rapid tests approved in 1999 and shall
be granted to the Community reference laboratory for TSEs
subject to forwarding a summary report accompanied by
justifying evidence as to the costs incurred.’

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This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 30 December 2003.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission