CELEX: 51984PC0662
Language: en
Date: 1984-11-27
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION AMENDING DECISION 77/97/EEC ON THE FINANCING BY THE COMMUNITY OF CERTAIN EMERGENCY MEASURES IN THE FIELD OF ANIMAL HEALTH

8. 12. 84                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             N o C 327/3
                                                                II
                                                        (Preparatory Acts)
                                                  COMMISSION
                Proposal for a Council Decision amending Decision 77/97/EEC on the financing by the
                            Community of certain emergency measures in the field of animal health
                                                       COM(84) 662 final
                              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 29 November 1984)
                                                         (84/C 327/03)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         vaccinations that are performed in the first 40 days of
COMMUNITIES,                                                        this epizootic, because the severity and rapidity of
                                                                    action taken in the initial phase will determine the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                        extent of subsequent developments;
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 43 thereof,                                                 Whereas the Community must be in a position to
                                                                    ascertain that the provisions adopted by Member
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  States for the implementation of those measures will
                                                                    contribute towards achievement of the objectives
                                                                    thereof; whereas, to this end, provision should be
Having regard to the opinion of the European                        made for a procedure establishing close cooperation
Parliament,                                                         between Member States and the Commission within
                                                                    the Standing Veterinary Committee,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee,
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Whereas Council Decision 77/97/EEC ('), as last
amended by Decision 81/477/EEC (2), has laid down                                             Article 1
as an initial step certain actions to be applied in the
                                                                    Decision 77/97/EEC       is hereby amended as follows:
case of outbreaks of defined exotic diseases including
exotic foot-and-mouth disease;
                                                                     1. Article 1 is amended as follows:
Whereas the Council, by Directive . . . has already
adopted measures for the control of foot-and-mouth                      (a) in paragraph 1, first subparagraph, 'and non-
disease by stamping out;                                                    exotic' is added between 'exotic' and 'foot';
                                                                        (b) in paragraph 1, first subparagraph, the first
Whereas the rapid and strict application of these new                       indent is replaced by the following:
measures will avert the spread of the disease and
increase the guarantees in trade, thereby facilitating                      '— the slaughter of animals of susceptible
the dismantling of trade barriers;                                                species which are afflicted or infected or
                                                                                  suspected of being so, and their des-
                                                                                  truction in cases where the disease
Whereas it is therefore desirable that the Community                              involved is transmissible by meat,';
should participate in financing the implementation of
these new emergency measures;                                           (c) in paragraph 3, first indent, the following is
                                                                             added:
Whereas Community financial aid should be limited                            'However, in the case of outbreaks of
to the first 20 outbreaks that occur in the first 30 days                    non-exotic     foot-and-mouth      disease,  the
in any one, single epizootic of non-exotic foot-and-                         Community's financial contribution shall be
mouth disease in any one Member State and or to                              limited to the first 20 outbreaks that occur in
                                                                             the first 30 days in any one Member State,
(') O J N o L 2 6 , 31. 1. 1977, p. 78.                                      following official confirmation of the first
(2) O J N o L 186, 8.7. 1981, p. 22.                                         outbreak.';
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   (d) in paragraph 3, second indent, the following is             'Article 4a
        added:
       'However, in the case of outbreaks of                      The Commission shall make on-the-spot checks to
       non-exotic     foot-and-mouth      disease,   the          verify from a veterinary viewpoint whether the
       Community's financial contribution shall be                emergency measures are being applied. Member
       limited to vaccination carried out during the              States shall take the necessary steps to facilitate
       first 40 days following official confirmation of           these checks and shall in particular ensure that the
       the first outbreak.';                                      experts are supplied at their request with all infor-
                                                                  mation and documentation needed for assessing
   (e) in paragraph 4 the last sentence is deleted;               the execution of the emergency measures.
   (f) a new paragraph 5 is added as follows:                     The provisions for implementing this Article,
       '5. Whether or not an outbreak of foot-and-                especially as regards the frequency and method of
       mouth disease is to be considered as exotic or             carrying out the checks referred to in the first
       non-exotic shall be decided in accordance with             paragraph, the rules governing the appointment of
       the procedure laid down in Article 5 following             official veterinarians and the procedure which they
       laboratory investigations using as guidelines              must follow when drawing up their report, shall be
       the type and subtype of the causative virus and            laid down in accordance with the procedure laid
       indications as to whether the current vaccines             down in Article 5.'
       in general use in the Community would
       protect against it.'                                                             Article 2
2. A new Article 4a is inserted as follows:                    This Decision is addressed to the Member States.