2008/425/EC: Commission Decision of 25 April 2008 laying down standard requirements for the submission by Member States of national programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of certain animal diseases and zoonoses for Community financing (notified under document number C(2008) 1585) (Text with EEA relevance)

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(10) thereof,

Whereas:

Decision 90/424/EEC lays down the procedures governing the Community's financial contribution towards the programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses. Pursuant to that Decision, a Community financial measure is to be introduced to reimburse the expenditure incurred by the Member States for the financing of national programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of the animal diseases and zoonoses listed in the Annex to that Decision.
Decision 90/424/EEC provides that each year, by 30 April at the latest, Member States are to submit to the Commission the annual or multi-annual programmes starting in the following year for which they wish to receive a financial contribution from the Community.
Based on Article 3 of Decision 90/424/EEC, as amended by Decision 2006/965/EC, programmes for Enzootic bovine leucosis (EBL) and Aujeszky's disease may be funded until 31 December 2010.
Commission Decision 2004/450/EC of 29 April 2004 laying down standard requirements for the content of applications for Community financing for programmes for the eradication, monitoring and control of animal diseases⁽²⁾ provides that Member States seeking a financial contribution from the Community for programmes for the eradication, monitoring and control of certain animal diseases are to submit applications containing certain information set out in that Decision.
Commission Decision 2008/341/EC of 25 April 2008 laying down Community criteria for national programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of certain animal diseases and zoonoses⁽³⁾ lays down criteria to be fulfilled by the national programmes in order to be approved by the Commission under the Community financial measure provided for in Article 24(1) of Decision 90/424/EEC.
Following the adoption of Decision 2008/341/EC and in order to further improve the process of submission, approval and assessment of progress during the implementation of the programmes, the standard requirements for the applications by Member States for Community financing for national programmes should be updated and made consistent with those criteria. For the sake of clarity, Decision 2004/450/EC should be repealed and replaced by this Decision.
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

Member States seeking a financial contribution from the Community for national programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses listed in the Annex to Decision 90/424/EEC shall submit applications containing at least the information set out in:

Annex I to this Decision in respect of:
- bovine tuberculosis,
- bovine brucellosis,
- ovine and caprine brucellosis (B. melitensis),
- bluetongue in endemic or high risk areas,
- African swine fever,
- swine vesicular disease,
- classical swine fever,
- anthrax,
- contagious bovine pleuropneumonia,
- rabies,
- echinococcosis,
- trichinellosis,
- verotoxigenic E. coli,
- enzootic bovine leucosis (EBL) and Aujeszky's disease;
Annex II to this Decision in respect of salmonellosis (zoonotic salmonella);
Annex III to this Decision in respect of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) (bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie and chronic waste disease (CWD);
Annex IV to this Decision in respect of avian influenza in poultry and wild birds;
Annex V to this Decision in respect of:
- infectious haematopoietic necrosis,
- infectious salmon anaemia,
- spring viraemia of carp (SVC),
- viral haemorrhagic septicæmia (VHS),
- koi herpes virus infection (KHV),
- infection with Bonamia ostreae,
- infection with Marteilia refringens,
- white spot disease in crustaceans.

Article 2

Decision 2004/450/EC is repealed.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 25 April 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla Vassiliou

Member of the Commission

ANNEX IStandard requirements for the submission of national programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of the animal diseases or zoonoses referred to in Article 1(a) (1)

ANNEX IIStandard requirements for the submission of national programmes for the control of Salmonellosis (zoonotic Salmonella) as referred to in Article 1(b)

ANNEX IIIStandard requirements for the submission of national programmes of eradication and monitoring of TSEs(1) as referred to in Article 1(c)

ANNEX IVStandard requirements for the submission of national surveillance programmes for avian influenza in poultry and wild birds as referred to in Article 1(d)

ANNEX VStandard requirements for the submission of national programmes for the eradication of the aquacultures animal diseases referred to in Article 1(e)