
Article 1 
A Community financial contribution for the performance of a study on the feasibility of a general revision of the Community farm animal welfare legislation and the integration of farm animal welfare indicators in the legislation up to a maximum of EUR 250 000 is hereby approved.
Article 2 
A Community financial contribution for the performance of an impact assessment study on animal welfare at transport and slaughter of farmed fish up to a maximum of EUR 150 000 is hereby approved.
Article 3 
A Community financial contribution for the performance of a study on the evaluation of the Community policy on animal welfare up to a maximum of EUR 350 000 is hereby approved.
Article 4 
A Community financial contribution for the performance of a study to support the Impact Assessment on the Animal Health General Law up to a maximum of EUR 150 000 is hereby approved.
Article 5 
A Community financial contribution for the performance of a feasibility study for the revision of Decision 90/424/EEC up to a maximum of EUR 250 000 is hereby approved.
Article 6 
A Community financial contribution for the hosting, management and maintenance of the Traces system, introduced by Decision 2003/24/EC, for the following amounts and objectives is hereby approved:

((a)) EUR 600 000 for the hosting;
((b)) EUR 450 000 for the acquisition of the necessary logistical support within the framework of assistance to the users;
((c)) EUR 400 000 for the purchase of maintenance support needed in order to bring the system in line with legal and technical developments;
((d)) EUR 380 000 for the necessary data processing developments;
((e)) EUR 300 000 for the development of the interface between the national bovine identification databases;
((f)) EUR 120 000 for the purchase of the informatic licences.
Article 7 
A Community financial contribution of EUR 270 000 for the update of the animal disease notification system (ADNS) based on Decision 2005/176/EC is hereby approved.
Article 8 
The provision of information by the Commission to the competent authorities and to the public concerning Community legislation on animal health and welfare is hereby approved for the following amounts and objectives:

— EUR 1 400 000 for publications and the dissemination of information and the strategy on animal health,
— EUR 150 000 for publications and the dissemination of information and the strategy on animal welfare.
Article 9 
A Community financial contribution, for the financing of the International Conference on Foot and Mouth Disease, organised by the OIE in 2009, of EUR 200 000 constituting a Community co-financing of at maximum 33 % of the total eligible costs is hereby approved.
Article 10 
The financial contribution provided for in Articles 1 to 9 shall be financed through the budget line 17 04 02 01 of the budget of the European Union for 2009.
Contractors for the studies provided for in Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be selected on the basis of the DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain).
Contractors for the study provided for in Article 5 will be selected on the basis of a call for tender for a specific contract during the last trimester of the year 2009.
The financial contribution provided for in Articles 6 and 7 would be granted through the following DIGIT framework contracts: DI 5370, DI 5711, DI 5712, DI 5716, DI 5717, DI 5719, DI 5720, DI 6350.
Article 11 
A grant agreement for the financial contributions provided for in Article 9 will be awarded to the OIE without a call for proposals as the OIE is the intergovernmental organisation for improving animal health worldwide and has a de facto monopoly.
Done at Brussels, 20 April 2009.
For the Commission
Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission