CELEX: 31973D0089
Language: en
Date: 1973-04-17 00:00:00
Title: 73/89/EEC: Council Decision of 17 April 1973 relating to measures against foot and mouth disease

25 . 4 . 73                      Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 108/ 15
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                                    (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                COUNCIL
                                             COUNCIL DECISION
                                                 of 17 April 1973
                            relating to measures against foot and mouth disease
                                                    (73/89/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                   Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43             The Community shall contribute the sum of 600 000
thereof ;                                                    units of account towards the campaign undertaken in
                                                             Greece and Turkey against the foreign strain of foot
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;          and mouth disease .
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­                               Article 2
ment ;
                                                             The Commission shall be responsible for supervising
Whereas an epidemic of foot and mouth disease,               the use of the moneys referred to in Article 1 , and
caused by a virus foreign to the European Economic           shall report to the Council on the implementation of
Community, has affected certain areas of south­              this Decision .
eastern Europe and is still affecting Turkey ; whereas
                                                                                   Article 3
this epidemic, as long as is not totally eradicated,
endangers livestock in the Community ; whereas the           This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
third countries concerned should therefore be helped
to implement the measures necessary both to eradi­           Done at Luxembourg, 17 April 1973 .
cate totally the epidemic which has already broken                                      For the Council
out and to prevent its recurrence, the achievement of
                                                                                         The President
such an objective being possible by the establishment
of buffer zones to prevent the disease from spreading ;                                   A. LAVENS