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Date: 1982-09-23
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on a financial contribution from the Community to the campaign against foot-and-mouth disease in South-East Europe (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                  COM(82 ) 524 final
                                                  Brussels , ?j, September 1982
                                   Proposal for a
                                 C OUNCIL DECISION
         on a financial contribution from the Community to
         the campaign against foot - and -mouth disease in
                                 South-East Europe
      ^       ( submitted to the       Council by the Commission )
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 ---pagebreak---                                   EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 I. The Director-General of the FAO has submitted a request to President Thorn
     for a financial contribution by the EEC to the continuance of the measures
     undertaken by his organization against exotic viruses of foot and mouth
     disease in the countries of South-East Europe .
     This request is for the sum of USD 870,000 ( about 889,200 EUA ), primarily
     to purchase vaccines to maintain the buffer zone created some 20 years ago
     to prevent the spread of exotic foot and mouth viruses to other European
     countries and , consequently , to Community territory .  This buffer zone
     covers areas on the border between Turkey and Greece , on the one hand , and
     between Turkey and Bulgaria , on the other .
     The FAO has also appealed to non-EEC European countries for funds .
II . In assessing the advisability of this contribution to the FAO , account should
     be taken in particular of the following :
     1 . Experience in recent years has shown that the Middle East and the countries
         of South-East Europe are specially
         vulnerable to foot and mouth disease caused by exotic viruses .   In 1962
         there was an epizootic disease caused by SAT ^ in Turkey and in 1964-65 an
         epizootic caused by A^ virus in Turkey reached the Greek border . In 1972
         Turkish Thrace and in particular Greece were effected by a second outbreak
         caused by A^ virus and in 1973 Turkey was also affected by an epizootic
         caused by Asia ^ virus .
         To create a barrier to the spread of these exotic viruses into Europe , in
         1962 the FAO , with financial assistance from the EEC and other European
         countries , created a buffer zone along the Greek-Turkish and Bulgarian-
         Turkish borders within which all animals susceptible to foot and mouth
         disease were vaccinated systematically with vaccines effective against the
         foot and mouth viruses threatening Europe .
         The action taken     the FAO was a decisive factor in preventing the spread
         of the various ep~ ootics of foot and mouth disease into Europe .
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      2 - The situation i ' now as follows : A^ virus , which is exotic for the EEC ,
          continues to exist in Anatolia , as does an 0 virus with different anti­
          genic properties from the classic 0 types traditionally used in the
          preparation of European vaccines . The presence of Asia ^ virus in the
          Middel East also contributes a supplementary threat to South-East Europe ,
          and , consequently , to Europe as a whole .  Moreover , Turkey is still not in
          a position to produce the foot and mouth vaccine necessary to meet national
          requirements .  Thus , the buffer zone can only be maintained with financial
          aid from European countries .
      3 . Community livestock is not vaccinated against exotic foot and mouth viruses .
          The Community is therefore very vulnerable to penetration by these viruses ,
          which could spread very rapidly and cause serious losses .
III . According to information supplied by the FAO , a favourable reply to its request
      for funds would , given the current situation as regards foot and mouth disease
      in the Middle East , enable vaccination campaigns to be continued within the
      buffer zone until 1984 , as recommended by the European Commission for the
      Control of Foot and Mouth Disease and would enable any emergency actions which
      may become necessary in South-East Europe .     The maintainance of the buffer
      zone beyond 1984 and the question of international support for vaccination
      campaigns will be examined in due course , in the light , in particular , of the
      epizootical situation as regards foot and mouth disease then obtaining in
      South-East Europe and the Middle East .
      The current FAO programme provides for the annual supply of some 750,000 doses
      of bivalent A£2 ^ v/acc ' ne to maintain the buffer zone .
      It should be noted that the composition of the foot and mouth vaccines to be
      used in the buffer zone and its extension could be changed at any time in
      particular in line with the epi zoot iologi ca I situation and the type of foot
      and mouth viruses threatening' Europe .
 ---pagebreak--- As was the case during previous operations , the correct use of the sums
granted could be verified by an EEC representative at the Level of an FAO /
IOE / EEC advisory group .
The granting of the contribution to the FAO for the purchase of vaccine
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intended for Bulgaria and Turkey ( about 812,000 ) requires prior approval by
Council decision ; on the other hand , the financing of the vaccine intended
for Greece ( about 58,000 ) may be charged to the " Emergency Veterinary Fund "
as agreed at the negotiations for Greek accession to the EEC , in accordance
with the procedure laid down in Article 2 of Council Decision 77 / 97 / EEC of
21 « 1 2 « 1 976 ( 0J L 26 of 31 January 1977 ) ( applicati n by Greece - Standing
Veterinary Committee procedure .«««««.««««««««■««■)«
 ---pagebreak---                               proposai for a
                                Council Décision
   on a financial contribution from the Community to the campaign against foot and
                      mouth disease in south-east Europe
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
                                              I
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community , and
    in particular Article 43 thereof -       ?■
                                             «
   Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
                                             aï
   Having regard to the op?mon of the European Parliament ,
   Whereas there have been outbreaks of foot - and -mouth di sease - caused by viruses
   foreign to the Community in recent years in certain regions of south-east Europe ;
   whereas the danger to Conimunity livestock from such exotic foot- and- mouth viruses
   h^s not yet been removed ;    whereas , consequently , aid should continue to be
   granted to the non-member countries concerned to enable them to apply measures
   designed to prevent the spread of these viruses , in particular by the creation
   of buffer zones in these regions ,
   HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                   Article 1                              »
The Community contributes financially to the programme to fight azotic foot and
mouth di3ee.se in the South Eastern Countries of Europe . The Commission haM under­
takes to aid ftaaaoially the joiat FAO progress* within the budgetary exercise
of 1982 sad 1962.
                                   Article 2
   The Commission shall be responsible for supervising the manner in which the sum
   provided for in Article 1 is used .     It shall report to the Council and the European
   Parliament on the implementation of this Decision ,
   Done at Brussels ,                                             For the Council
 ---pagebreak---                   FINANCIAL              STATEMENT                                             te
                                                                             Date ;    17 JUNE 1982
1 . BUDGET HEADING :        B 3803                                           APPROBIATJONS : p.m . in Line
                                                                             500,000 ECU at chapter 100
     TITLE :      Proposal for a Council Decision on a financial contribution from the
      Community to the campaign against foot and mouth disease in south-east Europe
3 . LEGAL BASIS :         Article 43
     AIMS OF PROJECT : The aim of the action is to ensure until 1984 the maintenance of                               £
     buffer zones against foot and mouth disease in south-east Europe and thereby to                                  |
      avoid the spread of exotic foot and mouth virus into the E.E.C. . The financial                                1
      contribution of the EEC is essentially designed to purchase foot and mouth                                      1
      disease vaccine to be used in the buffer zones .                                                               1
                                              PERI00           CURRENT FINANCIAL TEAR   FOUOWING FINANCIAL YEAR
5 . FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS                        ft°R0G RAMME         (  82    )            <    S3   >
 5.0 EXPENDITURE
       - CHARGED TO THE EC BUDGET                 830,000 ECU     500-000 ^ CU             330.000 ECU
         ( RE FUNDS / INTERVENTIONS )
       - NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
       - OTHER
5.1 RECEIPTS
       - OWN RESOURCES OF THE EC
          ( LEVIES / CUSTOMS DUTIES )
       - NATIONAL
 5.0.1 ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE
 5.1.1 ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
 5.2 METHOD OF CALCULATION
        FA0 has based its demand on the costs for bying foot - and mouth disease vaccine
        ( 0.58 US dollars per dosis bivalent ).
 6.0 CAN THE PROJECT BE FINANCED FROM APPROBATIONS ENTERED IN THE RELCVANT CHAPTER OF THE CURRENT BUDGET ?
                                                                                                           MU NO
 6.1 CAN THE PROJECT BE FINANCED B 1 TRANSFER BETWEEN CHAPTERS OF THE CURRENT SUDGTT ?                               J
                                                                                                           YES /HL»U A
 6.3 WILL FUTU«E BU0G6T APPR08 IA T I 0N$ BE NECESSARY ?
                                                                                                           YES m
  OBSERVATIONS      :
   ( 1 >_Transfer *      from chapte     100 .