2013/403/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 25 July 2013 approving certain amended programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses for the year 2013 and amending Implementing Decision 2012/761/EU as regards the Union financial contribution for certain programmes approved by that Decision (notified under document C(2013) 4663)

The amended programmes for monitoring of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), and for the eradication of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and of scrapie submitted by the following Member States on the following dates are hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013: (a) Belgium on 5 April 2013; (b) Czech Republic on 5 April 2013; (c) Denmark on 24 April 2013; (d) Germany on 20 March 2013; (e) Estonia on 26 March 2013; (f) Ireland on 22 March 2013; (g) Spain on 27 March 2013; (h) France on 29 March 2013; (i) Cyprus on 29 March 2013; (j) Latvia on 28 March 2013; (k) Luxembourg on 3 April 2013; (l) Hungary on 27 March 2013; (m) Austria on 27 March 2013; (n) Slovenia on 20 March 2013; (o) Slovakia on 26 March 2013; (p) Finland on 28 March 2013; (q) Sweden on 22 March 2013; (r) United Kingdom on 7 June 2013.

The amended programmes for the eradication and monitoring of bluetongue in endemic and high risk areas submitted by the following Member States on the following dates are hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013. (a) Spain on 26 March 2013; (b) Hungary on 24 January 2013.

The amended programmes for the eradication of rabies submitted by the following Member States on the following dates are hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013: (a) Poland on 28 March 2013; (b) Greece on 28 June 2013.

Implementing Decision 2012/761/EU is amended as follows: (1) in Article 4(2), point (b)(vii) is replaced by the following: ‘(vii) EUR 500000 for Spain;’ (2) in Article 10(2), point (c) is replaced by the following: ‘(c) shall not exceed the following: (i) EUR 290000 for Belgium; (ii) EUR 270000 for Bulgaria; (iii) EUR 500000 for the Czech Republic; (iv) EUR 300000 for Denmark; (v) EUR 4700000 for Germany; (vi) EUR 60000 for Estonia; (vii) EUR 1210000 for Ireland; (viii) EUR 1700000 for Greece; (ix) EUR 3290000 for Spain; (x) EUR 12600000 for France; (xi) EUR 4800000 for Italy; (xii) EUR 230000 for Croatia; (xiii) EUR 1900000 for Cyprus; (xiv) EUR 80000 for Latvia; (xv) EUR 420000 for Lithuania; (xvi) EUR 50000 for Luxembourg; (xvii) EUR 790000 for Hungary; (xviii) EUR 25000 for Malta; (xix) EUR 2200000 for the Netherlands; (xx) EUR 500000 for Austria; (xxi) EUR 2600000 for Poland; (xxii) EUR 1100000 for Portugal; (xxiii) EUR 1200000 for Romania; (xxiv) EUR 160000 for Slovenia; (xxv) EUR 250000 for Slovakia; (xxvi) EUR 160000 for Finland; (xxvii) EUR 210000 for Sweden; (xxviii) EUR 2520000 for the United Kingdom.’ (3) Article 11 is amended as follows: (a) in paragraph 2, point (d)(ii) is replaced by the following: ‘(ii) EUR 1500000 for Greece;’ (b) in paragraph 2, point (d)(vii) is replaced by the following: ‘(vii) EUR 6850000 for Poland;’ (c) in paragraph 4, point (c), is replaced by the following: ‘(c) not exceed: (i) EUR 1260000 for the part of the Lithuanian programme implemented in Belarus; (ii) EUR 1255000 for the part of the Polish programme implemented in Ukraine; (iii) EUR 295000 for the part of the Polish programme implemented in Belarus.’

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.