Commission Decision

of 8 December 2006

amending Decisions 2005/723/EC and 2005/873/EC as regards the reallocation of the Community’s financial contribution to certain Member States for their programmes for the eradication and monitoring of animal diseases and for checks aimed at the prevention of zoonoses for 2006

(notified under document number C(2006) 5937)

(2006/912/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], and in particular Article 24(5) and (6), and Articles 29 and 32 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Decision 90/424/EEC provides for the possibility of financial participation by the Community towards the programmes of Member States aimed at the eradication and monitoring of animal diseases and for checks aimed at the prevention of zoonoses.

(2) Commission Decision 2005/723/EC of 14 October 2005 on programmes for the eradication and monitoring of animal diseases, of certain TSEs, and for the prevention of zoonoses, which qualify for a Community financial contribution in 2006 [2] sets out the proposed rate and maximum amount of the Community’s financial contribution for each programme submitted by the Member States.

(3) Commission Decision 2005/873/EC of 30 November 2005 approving programmes for the eradication and monitoring of animal diseases, of certain TSEs, and for the prevention of zoonoses presented by the Member States for the year 2006 [3] sets out the maximum amount of the Community’s financial contribution for each programme submitted by the Member States.

(4) The Commission has analysed the reports forwarded by the Member States on the expenditures of those programmes. The results of that analysis show that certain Member States will not utilise their full allocation for 2006 while others will spend in excess of the allocated amount.

(5) The Community’s financial contribution to certain of those programmes therefore needs to be adjusted. It is appropriate to reallocate funding from programmes of Member States, which are not using their full allocation to those that are exceeding it. The reallocation should be based on the most recent information on the expenditure actually incurred by the concerned Member States.

(6) Decisions 2005/723/EC and 2005/873/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(7) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annexes I to V to Decision 2005/723/EC are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

Decision 2005/873/EC is amended as follows:

1. in Article 1(2)(d), "EUR 105000" is replaced by "EUR 0";

2. in Article 1(2)(f), "EUR 600000" is replaced by "EUR 0";

3. in Article 3(2)(a), "EUR 65000" is replaced by "EUR 135000";

4. in Article 3(2)(b), "EUR 5000000" is replaced by "EUR 7000000";

5. in Article 3(2)(e), "EUR 240000" is replaced by "EUR 370000";

6. in Article 4(2)(c), "EUR 50000" is replaced by "EUR 90000";

7. in Article 4(2)(e), "EUR 100000" is replaced by "EUR 400000";

8. in Article 5(2)(f), "EUR 1000000" is replaced by "EUR 1130000";

9. in Article 6(2)(a), "EUR 2200000" is replaced by "EUR 4200000";

10. in Article 7(1)(a), "EUR 650000" is replaced by "EUR 550000";

11. in Article 7(1)(c), "EUR 900000" is replaced by "EUR 300000";

12. in Article 7(1)(k), "EUR 488000" is replaced by "EUR 38000";

13. in Article 8(2)(b), "EUR 600000" is replaced by "EUR 1200000";

14. in Article 9(2)(a), "EUR 160000" is replaced by "EUR 260000";

15. in Article 11(2)(h), "EUR 25760000" is replaced by "EUR 26065000";

16. in Article 11(2)(q), "EUR 5515000" is replaced by "EUR 5550000";

17. in Article 11(2)(t), "EUR 2205000" is replaced by "EUR 2665000";

18. in Article 12(2)(h), "EUR 300000" is replaced by "EUR 100000";

19. in Article 12(2)(p), "EUR 685000" is replaced by "EUR 335000";

20. in Article 13(2)(g), "EUR 12790000" is replaced by "EUR 4790000";

21. in Article 13(2)(k), "EUR 5215000" is replaced by "EUR 2815000";

22. in Article 13(2)(p), "EUR 685000" is replaced by "EUR 500000";

23. in Article 13(2)(r), "EUR 865000" is replaced by "EUR 75000".

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 8 December 2006.

For the Commission

Markos Kyprianou

Member of the Commission

[1] OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19. Decision as last amended by Decision 2006/782/EC (OJ L 328, 24.11.2006, p. 57).

[2] OJ L 272, 18.10.2005, p. 18. Decision as amended by Decision 2006/645/EC (OJ L 263, 23.9.2006, p. 14).

[3] OJ L 322, 9.12.2005, p. 21. Decision as amended by Decision 2006/645/EC.

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ANNEX

Annexes I to V to Decision 2005/723/EC are replaced by the following:

ANNEX I

List of programmes for the eradication and monitoring of animal diseases (Article 1(1))

Rate and maximum amount of the Community financial contribution

Disease | Member State | Rate (%) | Maximum amount (EUR) |

Aujeszkys disease | Belgium | 50 | 260000 |

Spain | 50 | 100000 |

Bluetongue | Spain | 50 | 4200000 |

France | 50 | 150000 |

Italy | 50 | 1000000 |

Portugal | 50 | 1250000 |

Bovine brucellosis | Greece | 50 | 300000 |

Spain | 50 | 6000000 |

Ireland | 50 | 1750000 |

Italy | 50 | 2600000 |

Cyprus | 50 | 300000 |

Poland | 50 | 260000 |

Portugal | 50 | 1800000 |

United Kingdom [1] | 50 | 1900000 |

Bovine tuberculosis | Estonia | 50 | 135000 |

Spain | 50 | 7000000 |

Italy | 50 | 1800000 |

Poland | 50 | 800000 |

Portugal | 50 | 370000 |

Classical swine fever | Czech Republic | 50 | 35000 |

Germany | 50 | 1200000 |

France | 50 | 400000 |

Luxembourg | 50 | 15000 |

Slovenia | 50 | 25000 |

Slovakia | 50 | 400000 |

Enzootic bovine leucosis | Estonia | 50 | 5000 |

Italy | 50 | 90000 |

Lithuania | 50 | 100000 |

Latvia | 50 | 200000 |

Portugal | 50 | 400000 |

Ovine and caprine brucellosis (B. melitensis) | Greece | 50 | 600000 |

Spain | 50 | 6500000 |

France | 50 | 150000 |

Italy | 50 | 3200000 |

Cyprus | 50 | 310000 |

Portugal | 50 | 1130000 |

Poseidom [2] | France [3] | 50 | 100000 |

Rabies | Austria | 50 | 180000 |

Czech Republic | 50 | 390000 |

Germany | 50 | 750000 |

Estonia | 50 | 990000 |

France | 50 | 0 |

Finland | 50 | 100000 |

Lithuania | 50 | 0 |

Latvia | 50 | 650000 |

Poland | 50 | 3750000 |

Slovenia | 50 | 300000 |

Slovakia | 50 | 400000 |

African swine fever/Classical swine fever | Italy | 50 | 50000 |

Total | 54395000 |

ANNEX II

List of programmes of checks aimed at the prevention of zoonoses (Article 2(1))

Rate and maximum amount of the Community financial contribution

Zoonosis | Member State | Rate (%) | Maximum amount (EUR) |

Salmonella | Austria | 50 | 72000 |

Belgium | 50 | 550000 |

Cyprus | 50 | 69000 |

Denmark | 50 | 155000 |

Germany | 50 | 300000 |

France | 50 | 315000 |

Ireland | 50 | 75000 |

Italy | 50 | 675000 |

Latvia | 50 | 73000 |

Netherlands | 50 | 759000 |

Portugal | 50 | 38000 |

Slovakia | 50 | 232000 |

Total | 3313000 |

ANNEX III

List of programmes for the monitoring of TSEs (Article 3(1))

Rate and maximum amount of the Community financial contribution

Disease | Member State | Rate rapid tests and discriminatory tests performed % | Maximum amount (EUR) |

TSEs | Belgium | 100 | 3375000 |

Czech Republic | 100 | 1640000 |

Denmark | 100 | 2380000 |

Germany | 100 | 15155000 |

Estonia | 100 | 285000 |

Greece | 100 | 1625000 |

Spain | 100 | 9945000 |

France | 100 | 26065000 |

Ireland | 100 | 6695000 |

Italy | 100 | 9045000 |

Cyprus | 100 | 565000 |

Latvia | 100 | 355000 |

Lithuania | 100 | 770000 |

Luxembourg | 100 | 140000 |

Hungary | 100 | 1415000 |

Malta | 100 | 35000 |

Netherlands | 100 | 5550000 |

Austria | 100 | 2230000 |

Poland | 100 | 3800000 |

Portugal | 100 | 2665000 |

Slovenia | 100 | 410000 |

Slovakia | 100 | 845000 |

Finland | 100 | 1020000 |

Sweden | 100 | 1440000 |

United Kingdom | 100 | 7700000 |

Total | 105150000 |

ANNEX IV

List of programmes for the eradication of BSE (Article 4(1))

Rate and maximum amount of the Community financial contribution

Disease | Member State | Rate | Maximum amount (EUR) |

BSE | Belgium | 50 % culling | 150000 |

Czech Republic | 50 % culling | 750000 |

Denmark | 50 % culling | 100000 |

Germany | 50 % culling | 875000 |

Estonia | 50 % culling | 15000 |

Greece | 50 % culling | 15000 |

Spain | 50 % culling | 1000000 |

France | 50 % culling | 100000 |

Ireland | 50 % culling | 2800000 |

Italy | 50 % culling | 200000 |

Cyprus | 50 % culling | 15000 |

Luxembourg | 50 % culling | 100000 |

Netherlands | 50 % culling | 60000 |

Austria | 50 % culling | 15000 |

Poland | 50 % culling | 985000 |

Portugal | 50 % culling | 335000 |

Slovenia | 50 % culling | 25000 |

Slovakia | 50 % culling | 65000 |

Finland | 50 % culling | 25000 |

United Kingdom | 50 % culling | 530000 |

Total | 8160000 |

ANNEX V

List of programmes for the eradication of scrapie (Article 5(1))

Rate and amount of the Community financial contribution

Disease | Member State | Rate | Maximum amount (EUR) |

Scrapie | Belgium | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 100000 |

Czech Republic | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 105000 |

Denmark | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 5000 |

Germany | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 1105000 |

Estonia | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 6000 |

Greece | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 1060000 |

Spain | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 4790000 |

France | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 4690000 |

Ireland | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 705000 |

Italy | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 530000 |

Cyprus | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 2815000 |

Latvia | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 10000 |

Lithuania | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 5000 |

Luxembourg | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 35000 |

Hungary | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 50000 |

Netherlands | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 500000 |

Austria | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 15000 |

Portugal | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 75000 |

Slovenia | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 160000 |

Slovakia | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 250000 |

Finland | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 6000 |

Sweden | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 6000 |

United Kingdom | 50 % culling; 100 % genotyping | 5740000 |

Total | 22763000 |

[1] United Kingdom only as regards Northern Ireland.

[2] Heartwater, babesiosis and anaplasmosis transmitted by vector insects in the French overseas departments.

[3] France only as regards Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion.

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