96/717/EC: Commission Decision of 29 November 1996 on financial aid from the Community for the operation of the Community Reference Laboratory for fish diseases (Statens Veterinære Serumlaboratorium, Århus, Denmark) (Only the Danish text is authentic)

COMMISSION  DECISION of 29 November 1996 on financial aid from the Community for the operation of the Community  Reference Laboratory for fish diseases (Statens Veterinaere Serumlaboratorium, AArhus, Denmark) (Only  the Danish text is authentic) (96/717/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES
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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 Decision 94/370/EC  (2), and in particular Article 28 (2) thereof,
Whereas Annex B to Council Directive 93/53/EEC of 24 June 1993 introducing minimum Community  measures for the control of certain fish diseases  (3), as last amended by the Act of Accession of  Austria, Finland and Sweden, designates the Statens Veterinaere Serumlaboratorium, AArhus, Denmark as  the Community Reference Laboratory for fish diseases referred to in Annex A to Council Directive  91/67/EEC  (4);
Whereas all the functions and duties which the laboratory has to perform are specified in Annex C  to Directive 93/53/EEC; whereas Community assistance must be conditional on the accomplishment of  those functions and duties by the laboratory;
Whereas Community financial aid should be granted to the Community Reference Laboratory to assist  it in carrying out the said functions and duties;
Whereas, for budgetary reasons, Community assistance should be granted for a period of one year;
Whereas, 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  (5), as last amended by Regulation  (EEC) No 2048/88  (6), should apply;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the  Standing Veterinary Committee,