
CHAPTER I
Article 1 

1. The programmes for the eradication of rabies presented by the Bulgaria and Romania are hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007.
2. 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 laboratory tests and for the purchase and distribution of vaccine plus baits for the programmes and shall not exceed:
(a) EUR 830 000 for Bulgaria;
(b) EUR 800 000 for Romania.
3. 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 the purchase of one vaccine dose EUR 0,5 per dose for the programmes referred to in paragraph 2.
CHAPTER II
Article 2 

1. The programmes for the control and monitoring of classical swine fever presented by Bulgaria and Romania are hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007.
2. 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 virological and serological tests of domestic pigs and wild boar and for the vaccination of wild boar the purchase and distribution of vaccines plus baits as well as for the vaccination of pigs while the financial contribution by the Community shall be at the rate of 100 % of the costs to be incurred by Romania for the purchase of the vaccine for the vaccination of pigs with the live attenuated vaccine and shall not exceed:
(a) EUR 425 000 for Bulgaria;
(b) EUR 5 250 000 for Romania.
3. The maximum amounts of the costs to be reimbursed to for the programmes referred to in paragraph 1 shall not exceed:(a) for an ELISA testEUR 2,5 per test;(b) for the purchase of one vaccine dose for the vaccination of wild boarEUR 0,5 per dose;(c) for the purchase of one vaccine dose live attenuated vaccine for the vaccination of pigsEUR 0,30 per dose.
CHAPTER III
Article 3 

1. The programmes for the control of salmonella in breeding poultry presented by Bulgaria and Romania are hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007.
2. 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 bacteriological tests, the compensation to owners for their losses due to the culling of birds and destruction of eggs and the purchase of vaccine doses and shall not exceed:
(a) EUR 508 000 for Bulgaria;
(b) EUR 215 000 for Romania.
3. The maximum amounts of the costs to be reimbursed to Bulgaria and Romania for the programmes referred to in paragraph 1 shall not exceed:(a) for a bacteriological testEUR 5,0 per test;(b) for the purchase of one vaccine doseEUR 0,05 per dose.
4. The eligible costs for the compensation for the losses due to the culling of animals shall be limited as provided for in paragraph 5.
5. The average compensation to be reimbursed to the Member States shall be calculated on the basis of the number of animals culled in the Member State and for breeding poultry, up to a maximum of EUR 2,5 per bird.
CHAPTER IV
Article 4 

1. The programmes for avian influenza in poultry and wild birds presented by Bulgaria and Romania are hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007.
2. The financial contribution by the Community to the cost for analysing samples shall be at the rate of 50 % of the costs to be incurred by each Member State and shall not exceed:
(a) EUR 23 000 for Bulgaria;
(b) EUR 105 000 for Romania.
3. The maximum amounts of the costs to be reimbursed to Bulgaria and Romania for the tests covered by the programmes shall not exceed the following:(a) ELISA testEUR 1 per test;(b) agar gel immune diffusion testEUR 1,2 per test;(c) HI test for H5/H7EUR 12 per test;(d) virus isolation testEUR 30 per test;(e) PCR testEUR 15 per test.
CHAPTER V
Article 5 

1. The programme for the monitoring of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) presented by Romania is hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007.
2. The financial contribution by the Community shall be at the rate of 100 % of the costs to be incurred by Romania referred to in paragraph 1 for the implementation of that programme and shall not exceed EUR 2 370 000.
3. The financial contribution by the Community of the programme referred to in paragraph 1 shall be for the tests performed and the maximum amount shall not exceed:
(a) EUR 6 per test, for tests carried out in bovine animals referred to in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;
(b) EUR 30 per test, for tests carried out in ovine and caprine animals referred to in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;
(c) EUR 50 per test, for tests carried out in cervids animals referred to in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;
(d) EUR 145 per test, for primary molecular discriminatory tests carried out as referred to in Annex X, Chapter C, point 3.2(c)(i) to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001.
CHAPTER VI
Article 6 

1. The programme for the eradication of scrapie presented by Romania is hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007.
2. The financial contribution by the Community of the programme referred to in paragraph 1 shall be at the rate of 50 % of the cost paid by Romania for compensation to owners for the value of their animals culled and destroyed in accordance with their eradication programme, up to a maximum of EUR 100 per animal and at a rate of 50 % of the costs for genotyping, up to a maximum of EUR 10 per genotyping test and shall not exceed EUR 980 000.
CHAPTER VII
Article 7 
The expenditure presented by Bulgaria and Romania for a financial contribution by the Community shall be expressed in euro and shall exclude value added tax and other taxes.
Article 8 
The conversion rate for expenditure shall be the rate most recently set by the European Central Bank prior to the first day of the month in which the application is submitted by Bulgaria or Romania.
Article 9 

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):
(a) bringing into force by 1 January 2007 the laws, regulations and administrative provisions by the Member State concerned for implementing the programme;
(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;
(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;
(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;
(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;
(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;
(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;
(h) implementing the programme efficiently;
(i) no other Community contribution has been or will be asked for these measures.
2. 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.
Article 10 
The Annexes to Decision 2006/687/EC are replaced by the text in Annex III to this Decision
Article 11 
This Decision shall apply subject to and as from the date of the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania.
Article 12 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 30 November 2006.
For the Commission
Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission
ANNEX I

ANNEX II

TSE Monitoring
Member State: Month: Year:
Tests on bovine animals
 Number of tests Unit cost Total cost
Tests on animals referred to in Annex III, Chapter A, Part I, points 2.1, 3 and 4.1 to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001   
Tests on animals referred to in Annex III, Chapter A, Part I, points 2.2, 4.2 and 4.3 to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001   
Total   
Tests on ovine animals
 Number of tests Unit cost Total cost
Tests on animals referred to in Annex III, Chapter A, Part II, point 2(a) to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001   
Tests on animals referred to in Annex III, Chapter A, Part II, point 3 Regulation (EC) No 999/2001   
Tests on animals referred to in Annex III, Chapter A, Part II, point 5 to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001   
Total   
Tests on caprine animals
 Number of tests Unit cost Total cost
Tests on animals referred to in Annex III, Chapter A, Part II, point 2 (b) to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001   
Tests on animals referred to in Annex III, Chapter A, Part II, point 3 Regulation (EC) No 999/2001   
Tests on animals referred to in Annex III, Chapter A, Part II, point 5 to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001   
Total   
Primary molecular testing with a discriminatory immuno-blotting
 Number of tests Unit cost Total cost
Tests on animals referred to in Annex X, Chapter C, point 3.2(c)(i)   
Tests on Cervidae
 Number of tests Unit cost Total cost
Tests on animals referred to in Annex II of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001   
ANNEX III

Annexes I, II, III and V to Decision 2006/687/EC are replaced by the following:

ANNEX I 
Disease Member State Rate Maximum amount(EUR)
Aujeszkys disease Belgium 50 % 250 000
Spain 50 % 350 000
Bluetongue Spain 50 % 4 900 000
France 50 % 160 000
Italy 50 % 1 300 000
Portugal 50 % 600 000
Bovine brucellosis Spain 50 % 3 500 000
Ireland 50 % 1 100 000
Italy 50 % 2 000 000
Cyprus 50 % 95 000
Poland 50 % 300 000
Portugal 50 % 1 600 000
United Kingdom 50 % 1 100 000
Bovine tuberculosis Spain 50 % 3 000 000
Italy 50 % 2 500 000
Poland 50 % 1 100 000
Portugal 50 % 450 000
Classical swine fever Germany 50 % 800 000
France 50 % 500 000
Luxembourg 50 % 35 000
Slovenia 50 % 25 000
Slovakia 50 % 400 000
Enzootic bovine leucosis Estonia 50 % 20 000
Italy 50 % 400 000
Latvia 50 % 35 000
Lithuania 50 % 135 000
Poland 50 % 2 300 000
Portugal 50 % 225 000
Ovine and caprine brucellosis (B melitensis) Greece 50 % 650 000
Spain 50 % 5 000 000
France 50 % 200 000
Italy 50 % 4 000 000
Cyprus 50 % 120 000
Portugal 50 % 1 600 000
Poseidom France 50 % 50 000
Rabies Czech Republic 50 % 490 000
Germany 50 % 850 000
Estonia 50 % 925 000
Latvia 50 % 1 200 000
Lithuania 50 % own territory; 100 % border areas 600 000
Hungary 50 % 1 850 000
Austria 50 % 185 000
Poland 50 % 4 850 000
Slovenia 50 % 375 000
Slovakia 50 % 500 000
Finland 50 % 112 000
Bulgaria 50 % 830 000
Romania 50 % 800 000
African swine fever/Classical swine fever Italy 50 % 140 000
Bulgaria 50 % 425 000
Romania 50 % 5 250 000
Swine vesicular disease Italy 50 % 120 000
Avian influenza Belgium 50 % 66 000
Czech Republic 50 % 74 000
Denmark 50 % 160 000
Germany 50 % 243 000
Estonia 50 % 40 000
Greece 50 % 42 000
Spain 50 % 82 000
France 50 % 280 000
Ireland 50 % 59 000
Italy 50 % 510 000
Cyprus 50 % 15 000
Latvia 50 % 15 000
Lithuania 50 % 12 000
Luxembourg 50 % 10 000
Hungary 50 % 110 000
Malta 50 % 5 000
Netherlands 50 % 126 000
Austria 50 % 42 000
Poland 50 % 87 000
Portugal 50 % 121 000
Slovenia 50 % 32 000
Slovakia 50 % 21 000
Finland 50 % 27 000
Sweden 50 % 130 000
United Kingdom 50 % 275 000
Bulgaria 50 % 23 000
Romania 50 % 105 000
Total 63 014 000



ANNEX II 
Zoonosis Member State Rate Maximum amount(EUR)
Salmonella Belgium 50 % 660 000
Czech Republic 50 % 330 000
Denmark 50 % 250 000
Germany 50 % 175 000
Estonia 50 % 27 000
Greece 50 % 60 000
Spain 50 % 2 000 000
France 50 % 875 000
Ireland 50 % 175 000
Italy 50 % 320 000
Cyprus 50 % 40 000
Latvia 50 % 60 000
Hungary 50 % 60 000
Netherlands 50 % 1 350 000
Austria 50 % 80 000
Poland 50 % 2 000 000
Portugal 50 % 450 000
Slovakia 50 % 205 000
Bulgaria 50 % 508 000
Romania 50 % 215 000
Total 9 840 000
ANNEX III 
Disease Member State Rate rapid tests & discriminatory tests performed Maximum amount(EUR)
TSEs Belgium 100 % 2 084 000
Czech Republic 100 % 1 059 000
Denmark 100 % 1 680 000
Germany 100 % 11 307 000
Estonia 100 % 233 000
Greece 100 % 1 827 000
Spain 100 % 10 237 000
France 100 % 24 815 000
Ireland 100 % 6 755 000
Italy 100 % 3 375 000
Cyprus 100 % 348 000
Latvia 100 % 312 000
Lithuania 100 % 645 000
Luxembourg 100 % 146 000
Hungary 100 % 784 000
Malta 100 % 90 000
Netherlands 100 % 5 112 000
Austria 100 % 1 759 000
Poland 100 % 3 744 000
Portugal 100 % 2 115 000
Slovenia 100 % 308 000
Slovakia 100 % 1 088 000
Finland 100 % 839 000
Sweden 100 % 2 020 000
United Kingdom 100 % 6 781 000
Romania 100 % 2 370 000
Total 91 833 000
ANNEX V 
Disease Member State Rate Maximum amount(EUR)
Scrapie Belgium 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 99 000
Czech Republic 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 107 000
Germany 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 927 000
Estonia 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 13 000
Greece 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 1 306 000
Spain 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 5 374 000
France 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 8 862 000
Ireland 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 629 000
Italy 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 3 076 000
Cyprus 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 2 200 000
Luxembourg 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 28 000
Hungary 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 332 000
Netherlands 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 543 000
Austria 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 14 000
Portugal 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 716 000
Slovenia 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 83 000
Slovakia 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 279 000
Finland 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 11 000
Sweden 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 6 000
United Kingdom 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 9 178 000
Romania 50 % culling; 50 % genotyping 980 000
Total 34 763 000
