2007/270/EC: Commission Decision of 23 April 2007 on a financial contribution from the Community towards emergency measures to combat avian influenza in the Netherlands in 2006 (notified under document number C(2007) 1746)
Date: 2007-04-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, EU financing, Netherlands, animal disease, bird, disease prevention, emergency aid

L 115/20

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Official Journal of the European Union

3.5.2007

COMMISSION DECISION

of 23 April 2007

on a financial contribution from the Community towards emergency measures to combat avian
influenza in the Netherlands in 2006

(notified under document number C(2007) 1746)

(Only the Dutch text is authentic)

(2007/270/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 3(3) and 3a(1) thereof,

Whereas:

the

down

financial

veterinary measures,

90/424/EEC lays
the Community’s
specific

procedures
Decision
contribution
governing
including
towards
emergency measures. Decision 90/424/EEC, as amended
by Decision 2006/53/EC (2), provides for a Community
financial contribution to Member States to cover certain
costs involved in taking measures to eradicate avian
influenza.

Decision 90/424/EEC by Decision 2006/53/EC, no
longer covers avian influenza. It is therefore necessary
to expressly provide in the present Decision that the
granting of a financial contribution to the Netherlands
is subject to compliance with certain rules laid down in
Regulation (EC) No 349/2005.

Article 3a(3) of Decision 90/424/EEC provides that the
Community financial contribution is to be 50 % of the
eligible costs incurred by the Member State.

The Netherlands has fully complied with its technical and
administrative obligations as set out in Articles 3(3) and
3a(2) of Decision 90/424/EEC. The Netherlands has
forwarded to the Commission information on the costs
incurred in the framework of this outbreak on 30 August
2006 and thereafter continued to provide all necessary
information on costs of compensation and operational
expenditure.

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(5)

(6)

(7)

Outbreaks of avian influenza occurred in the Netherlands
that disease represents a
in 2006. The emergence of
serious risk to the Community’s livestock population.
Under Article 3a(2) of Decision 90/424/EEC, the Neth-
erlands took measures to combat those outbreaks.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

The payment of a Community financial contribution
must be made
the
planned measures were actually implemented and that
the competent authorities provided all
the necessary
information to the Commission within certain deadlines.

condition that

to the

subject

Commission Regulation (EC) No 349/2005 of 28
February 2005 laying down rules on the Community
financing of emergency measures and of the campaign
certain animal diseases under Council
to combat
Decision 90/424/EEC (3),
following the amendment of

Article 1

Financial contribution from the Community

A financial contribution from the Community may be
1.
granted to the Netherlands towards the costs incurred by that
Member State in taking the measures referred to in Article 3a(2)
of Decision 90/424/EEC to combat avian influenza in 2006.

The financial contribution shall be 50 % of the costs incurred
that are eligible for Community funding.

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

(EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 29, 2.2.2006, p. 37.
(3) OJ L 55, 1.3.2005, p. 12.

2.
For the purposes of this Decision, Articles 2 to 5 and
Articles 7 and 8 and Article 9(2), (3) and (4) and Article 10
of Regulation (EC) No 349/2005 shall apply mutatis mutandis.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Article 2

Addressee

Done at Brussels, 23 April 2007.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission