2006/447/EC: Commission Decision of  31 May 2006  amending Decision 2005/436/EC as regards the Community financial contribution to Trust Fund 911100MTF/INT/003/EEC (TFEU 970089129)  (notified under document number C(2006) 2076)
Date: 2006-05-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU financing, FAO, foot-and-mouth disease, institutional cooperation

30.6.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 176/105

COMMISSION DECISION

of 31 May 2006

amending Decision 2005/436/EC as regards the Community financial contribution to Trust Fund
911100MTF/INT/003/EEC (TFEU 970089129)

(notified under document number C(2006) 2076)

(2006/447/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
Articles 12 and 13 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

By Commission Decision 2005/436/EC of 13 June 2005
on Community cooperation with the Food and Agri-
culture Organisation with particular regard to activities
carried out by the European Commission for the Control
of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (2) the Community financial
Fund 911100MTF/INT/003/EEC
obligation to Trust
‘the Trust Fund’, was
set at a
(TFEU 970089129),
maximum of EUR 4 500 000 for a period of four years.

2005/436/EC

accordance with Decision

In
Commission of
Food and Agriculture Organisation of
Nations Organisation
Agreement on the use and operation of
Fund on 1 September 2005.

the
the European Communities and the
the United
Implementing
that Trust

concluded

an

In the light of the emergence of new virus topotypes and
virus strains and the regional deterioration of control
measures, exacerbated by the simultaneous occurrence
of avian influenza, the Community, in close cooperation

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

2006/53/EC (OJ L 29, 2.2.2006, p. 37).

(2) OJ L 151, 14.6.2005, p. 26.

with the European Commission for the Control of Foot-
and-Mouth Disease (EUFMD) and by using the Trust
Fund, must prepare
control measures,
including emergency vaccination campaigns in neigh-
bouring countries.

for disease

The Community contribution to the Trust Fund should
therefore
from
by
EUR 4 500 000 to EUR 8 000 000 for a period of
four years.

EUR 3 500 000

increased

be

Provision should be made
adoption of
amendments to the Implementing Agreement necessary
to take account of adjustment to this amount.

the

for

It is necessary for this Decision to have retroactive effect
as from 1 January 2005 to enable the Community to
comply with its obligations for a period of four years
from that date.

Decision 2005/436/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

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)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Sole Article

Decision 2005/436/EC is amended as follows:

1. In Article 1, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2.
As from 1 January 2005 the Community financial
contribution to the Fund referred to in paragraph 1 shall
be set at a maximum of EUR 8 000 000 for a period of
four years.’

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2. In Article 2(1), the following second subparagraph is added:

‘Any amendment to the Implementing Agreement necessary to take account of adjustment to the
amount set out in Article 1(2) shall be agreed between the Commission of the European Communities
and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Organization.’

Done at Brussels, 31 May 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission