2005/439/EC: Commission Decision of 13 June 2005 amending Commission Decision 2005/131/EC as regards the financial assistance for one Community reference laboratory in the field of veterinary public health (biological risks) in the United Kingdom for the year 2005 (notified under document number C(2005) 1711)
Date: 2005-06-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU financing, United Kingdom, health control, research body

L 152/20

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Official Journal of the European Union

15.6.2005

COMMISSION DECISION

of 13 June 2005

amending Commission Decision 2005/131/EC as regards the financial assistance for one Community
reference laboratory in the field of veterinary public health (biological risks) in the United Kingdom
for the year 2005

(notified under document number C(2005) 1711)

(Only the English text is authentic)

(2005/439/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Decision 90/424/EEC of 26 June
1990 on expenditure in the veterinary field (1), and,
in
particular, Article 28(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Decision 2005/131/EC of 7 February 2005
on financial assistance from the Community for the
operation of certain Community reference laboratories
in the field of veterinary public health (biological risks)
for the year 2005 (2), grants Community financial aid to
them to carry out certain functions and duties.

On 28 January 2005, an EU expert panel, chaired by the
Community Reference
(CRL),
confirmed the detection of bovine spongiform encepha-
lopathy (BSE) in a goat slaughtered in France. It was the
first case of BSE in a small ruminant under natural
conditions.

laboratory

for TSEs

In its statement of 28 January 2005, the Scientific Panel
on Biological Hazards of
the European Food Safety
Authority (EFSA) stressed that the significance of this
single case of BSE infection in a goat in France is yet
to be assessed. In order to do so, EFSA indicated that the
results of an increased monitoring of TSEs in goats will
be essential. In response to that, Commission Regulation
(EC) No 214/2005 (3) introduced a new programme for
the monitoring of TSE in caprine animals starting from

(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 45, 16.2.2005, p. 15.
(3) OJ L 37, 10.2.2005, p. 9.

this new monitoring
11 February 2005. Under
the numbers of healthy slaughter and
programme,
dead-on-farm caprine animals to be tested are substan-
tially increased.

a

strategy

to investigate

Commission Regulation (EC) No 36/2005 amending
Annexes III and IX to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of
the European Parliament and of the Council as regards
epidemiosurveillance for transmissible spongiform ence-
phalopathies in bovine, ovine and caprine animals (4)
introduced
the possible
presence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in
small
ruminants. The strategy includes firstly imple-
menting screening of all confirmed TSE cases in small
ruminants at the level of the national reference labora-
tories. Secondly, a ring trial with at least three different
methods in selected laboratories under the heading of the
Community Reference laboratory for TSEs (CRL) to be
carried out on all cases in which the first screening test
could not exclude BSE. Finally, mouse strain typing is
required if the outcome of the molecular typing needs
confirmation. The Community contribution will cover all
the costs for the ring trial and mouse strain typing.

At the request of the Commission this coordinating role
of
the CRL for the ring trial and the mouse strain
performed in different laboratories was included in the
work programmes for 2005.

Therefore the Community financial assistance to the
annual work plan of the CRL should be increased to
cover the additional costs for the ring trial and the
mouse strain typing.

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

Decision 2005/131/EC should be amended accordingly.

(8)

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(4) OJ L 10, 13.1.2005, p. 9.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

For the period from 1 January to 31 December 2005, that
financial aid shall not exceed EUR 810 500.’

Article 1

Article 2

Article 5(1) of Decision 2005/131/EC is
following text:

replaced by the

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

‘1.
The Community grants financial aid to the United
Kingdom for the functions and duties provided in Chapter
B of Annex X to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, to be
carried out by
Laboratories Agency,
Addlestone, United Kingdom, for the monitoring of trans-
missible spongiform encephalopathies.

the Veterinary

Done at Brussels, 13 June 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission