1999/760/EC: Commission Decision of 8 November 1999 on financial aid from the Community for the operation of certain Community reference laboratories in the field of veterinary public health (notified under document number C(1999) 3602) (Only the Spanish, German, English, French and Dutch texts are authentic)

COMMISSION DECISION
of 8 November 1999
on financial aid from the Community for the operation of certain Community reference laboratories in the field of veterinary public health
(notified under document number C(1999) 3602)
(Only the Spanish, German, English, French and Dutch texts are authentic)
(1999/760/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Decision 90/424/EEC of 26 June 1990 on expenditure in the veterinary field(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999(2), and in particular Article 28(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Community financial aid should be granted to the Community reference laboratories designated by the Community to assist them in carrying out the functions and duties laid down in the following Directives and Decisions:
- Council Directive 92/46/EEC of 16 June 1992 laying down the health rules for the production and placing on the market of raw milk, heat-treated milk and milk-based products(3), as last amended by Directive 96/23/EC(4),
- Council Directive 92/117/EEC of 17 December 1992 concerning measures for protection against specified zoonoses and specified zoonotic agents in animals and products of animal origin in order to prevent outbreaks of food-borne infections and intoxications(5), as last amended by Directive 1999/72/EC(6),
- Council Decision 93/383/EEC of 14 June 1993 on reference laboratories for the monitoring of marine biotoxins(7), as last amended by Decision 1999/312/EC(8),
- Council Decision 1999/313/EC of 29 April 1999 on reference laboratories for monitoring bacteriological and viral contamination of bivalve molluscs(9);
(2) Community assistance must be conditional on the accomplishment of those functions and duties by the laboratory concerned;
(3) For budgetary reasons, Community assistance should be granted for a period of one year;
(4) For supervisory purposes, Articles 8 and 9 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the common agricultural policy(10), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1287/95(11), should apply;
(5) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Veterinary Committee,