Article 16 Scrapie

United Kingdom

The second year of the multi-annual programme for the monitoring and eradication of scrapie submitted by Cyprus on 18 March 2009 is hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010.

The financial contribution by the Community shall not exceed F1EUR 4 000 000 and shall be at the rate of:

(a)

100 % of the costs to be incurred by Cyprus for carrying out rapid tests referred to in Annex III Chapter A Part II points 1 to 5 to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 and Annex VII thereto and primary molecular discriminatory tests as referred to in Annex X Chapter C point 3.2(c)(i) to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;

(b)

75 % of the cost incurred by Cyprus for the compensation to owners for the value of their animals culled and destroyed in accordance with its programme for monitoring and eradication of scrapie;

(c)

50 % of the costs of:

(i)

the analysis of samples for genotyping;
(ii)

the purchase of preparations used for euthanizing the animals;
(iii)

personnel specifically hired for carrying out tasks within the programme;
(iv)

destruction of the carcasses.

The maximum of the costs to be reimbursed to Cyprus for the programme referred to in paragraph 1 shall on average not exceed:

(a) for tests carried out in ovine and caprine animals

EUR 30 per test;

(b) for primary molecular discriminatory tests carried out

EUR 175 per test;

EUR 10 per test;

(d) for culled sheep or goats

EUR 100 per animal.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Substituted by Commission Decision of 30 November 2010 approving certain amended programmes for the eradication and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses for the year 2010 and amending Decision 2009/883/EC as regards the financial contribution by the Union for programmes approved by that Decision (notified under document C(2010) 8290) (2010/732/EU).