Article 4 Bluetongue in endemic or high risk areas

United Kingdom

The programmes for the eradication and monitoring of bluetongue submitted by Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia are hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008.

The financial contribution by the Community shall be at the rate of 50 % of the costs to be incurred by each Member State referred to in paragraph 1 for the cost of carrying out the laboratory tests for virological, serological and entomological surveillance and the purchase of traps and vaccines, and shall not exceed:

(a)

F1EUR 630 000 for Belgium;

(b)

EUR 5 400 for Bulgaria;

(c)

EUR 1 200 000 for Germany;

(d)

EUR 100 000 for Greece;

(e)

EUR 5 800 000 for Spain;

(f)

EUR 3 100 000 for France;

(g)

EUR 1 300 000 for Italy;

(h)

EUR 70 000 for Luxemburg;

(i)

EUR 125 000 for the Netherlands;

(j)

EUR 245 000 for Austria;

(k)

EUR 610 000 for Portugal;

(l)

EUR 100 000 for Romania;

(m)

EUR 61 000 for Slovenia.

The maximum amounts of the costs to be reimbursed to the Member States for the programmes referred to in paragraph 1 shall not exceed for an ELISA test EUR 2,5 per test.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Substituted by Commission Decision of 4 December 2008 approving certain amended programmes for the eradication and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses for the year 2008 and amending Decision 2007/782/EC as regards the reallocation of the Community’s financial contribution to certain Member States for programmes approved by that Decision (notified under document number C(2008) 7572) (2008/920/EC).