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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-876/article-9",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2006/876",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 30 November 2006 approving programmes for the eradication and monitoring of animal diseases, of certain TSEs, and for the prevention of zoonoses presented by Bulgaria and Romania for the year 2007 and amending Decision 2006/687/EC (notified under document number C(2006) 5702) (2006/876/EC)",
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  "path": "article/9",
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  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The financial contribution by the Community for the programmes referred to in Articles 1 to 6 shall be granted provided that Bulgaria and Romania implement the programmes in accordance with the relevant provisions of Community law, including rules on competition and on the award of public contracts, and subject to the conditions provided for in points (a) to (f):\n(a) bringing into force by 1 January 2007 the laws, regulations and administrative provisions by the Member State concerned for implementing the programme;\n(b) forwarding by 1 June 2007 at the latest, the preliminary technical and financial evaluation of the programme, in accordance with Article 24(7) of Decision 90/424/EEC;\n(c) for the programmes referred to in Articles 1 to 3, forwarding an intermediate report, covering the first six months of the programme, at the latest four weeks after the end of the implementation period covered by the report;\n(d) for the programmes referred to in Article 4, Bulgaria and Romania shall report to the Commission positive and negative results of investigations detected during their surveillance of poultry and wild birds every three months by the end of the following month;\n(e) for the programmes referred to in Articles 5 and 6, forwarding a report to the Commission every month on the progress of the TSE monitoring programme and the costs paid by Romania; that report must be forwarded within a period of four weeks following the end of the month covered by the report;\n(f) forwarding a final report by 1 June 2008 at the latest, on the technical execution of the programme accompanied by justifying evidence as to the costs paid by Bulgaria and Romania and the results attained during the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007;\n(g) details of the costs paid by Bulgaria and Romania as referred to in points (d) and (e) must be provided in a form in accordance with the table set out in the Annexes I and II;\n(h) implementing the programme efficiently;\n(i) no other Community contribution has been or will be asked for these measures.\n2. Where the concerned Member State does not comply with paragraph 1, the Commission shall reduce the financial contribution by the Community having regard to the nature and gravity of the infringement, and to the financial loss for the Community.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2006/876/article/9",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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