2006/632/EC: Commission Decision of 19 September 2006 as regards financial aid from the Community for the year 2006 for the Community reference laboratories for brucellosis and foot-and-mouth disease (notified under document number C(2006) 4124)
Date: 2006-09-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU financing, animal disease, foot-and-mouth disease, research body

21.9.2006

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 19 September 2006

as regards financial aid from the Community for the year 2006 for the Community reference
laboratories for brucellosis and foot-and-mouth disease

(notified under document number C(2006) 4124)

(Only the English and French texts are authentic)

(2006/632/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

a Community reference laboratory for foot-and-mouth
disease.

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,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on official
controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance
with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare
rules (2), and in particular Article 32(7) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Decision 90/424/EEC lays down procedures governing
the Community’s financial contribution in the veterinary
field. Community reference laboratories may be granted
financial aid in accordance with that Decision.

Council Directive 2003/85/EEC of 29 September 2003
on Community measures for the control of foot-and-
repealing Directive 85/511/EEC and
mouth disease
Decisions 89/531/EEC and 91/665/EEC and amending
Directive 92/46/EEC (3) provides for the designation of

(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 165, 30.4.2004, p. 1, corrected by OJ L 191, 28.5.2004,
p. 1. Regulation as amended by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 776/2006 (OJ L 136, 24.5.2006, p. 3).

(3) OJ L 306, 22.11.2003, p. 1. Directive as amended by Commission

Decision 2005/615/EC (OJ L 213, 18.8.2005, p. 14).

(3)

(4)

(5)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 156/2004 of 29
January 2004 on the Community’s financial assistance
to the Community reference laboratories pursuant
to
Article 28 of Decision 90/424/EEC (4) provides that the
the
financial
the
operation of
approved work programmes are efficiently carried out
and the beneficiaries supply all the necessary information
within certain time limits.

for
to be granted if

from the Community

laboratories

assistance

is

In July 2005, the Commission launched a call for the
selection and designation of new Community reference
laboratories. The evaluation of
the applications was
completed in December 2005 and the results were
notified to the competent authorities of
the Member
States concerned. Following that evaluation the successful
candidates were selected to be designated as new
Community
including
Community reference laboratories for brucellosis and
foot-and-mouth disease.

laboratories,

reference

Annex VII to Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 contains a
for animal
list of Community reference laboratories
health and live animals. That Regulation, as amended
lists the AFSSA —
by Regulation (EC) No 776/2006,
Laboratoire d’études et de recherches en pathologie
the Community
animale et zoonoses
reference laboratory for brucellosis for
the functions
and duties referred in Article 32(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 882/2004.

in France as

(4) OJ L 27, 30.1.2004, p. 5.

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(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

Commission Decision 2006/393/EC of 31 May 2006
concerning the designation of the Community reference
laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease (1) designated the
Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, of the
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
(BBSRC)
in the United Kingdom as the Community
reference Laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease for the
functions and duties
to
Directive 2003/85/EC.

referred to in Annex XVI

The Commission has assessed the work programmes and
corresponding budget estimates
submitted by those
Community reference laboratories for the year 2006.
the work programmes are effectively
Provided that
carried out, Community co-financing for certain eligible
costs
is
necessary for the implementation of the actions within
the work programmes.

to these Community reference laboratories

Accordingly, a Community financial assistance should be
granted to the Community reference laboratories for
brucellosis and foot-and-mouth disease.

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

The Community’s financial assistance shall be at the rate
2.
of 100 % of the eligible costs to be incurred by the AFSSA —
Laboratoire d’études et de recherches en pathologie animale et
zoonoses
the work programme and shall not exceed
EUR 125 000 for the period from 1 July to 31 December 2006.

for

Article 2

For

foot-and-mouth disease,

the Community grants
1.
financial assistance to the United Kingdom for the functions
and duties referred to in Annex XVI to Directive 2003/85/EC,
to be carried out by the Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright
Laboratory, of
the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences
Research Council (BBSRC) in the United Kingdom.

The Community’s financial assistance shall be at the rate
2.
of 100 % of the eligible costs to be incurred by the Pirbright
Laboratory for the work programme and shall not exceed
EUR 125 000 for the period from 1 July to 31 December 2006.

Article 3

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Done at Brussels, 19 September 2006.

For brucellosis, the Community grants financial assistance
1.
to France for the functions and duties referred in Article 32(2)
of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, to be carried out by the
AFSSA — Laboratoire d’études et de recherches en pathologie
animale et zoonoses, Maisons-Alfort.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 152, 7.6.2006, p. 31.