2013/653/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 12 November 2013 as regards a Union financial aid towards a coordinated control plan for antimicrobial resistance monitoring in zoonotic agents in 2014 (notified under document C(2013) 7289)

The Union shall contribute to the costs incurred by the Member States relating to the application of the harmonised antimicrobial resistance monitoring in accordance with Implementing Decision 2013/652/EU on samples of poultry collected between 1 January and 31 December 2014, with a total maximum amount of EUR 1407585 to be financed from line 17 04 07 01.

The Union financial contribution: (a) shall be at a rate of 50 % of the costs incurred by each Member State to implement the monitoring referred to in Article 1 of Implementing Decision 2013/652/EU and performed by the competent authority; (b) shall not exceed the following: (i) EUR 8 for staff costs per caecal sampling; (ii) EUR 11 per E. coli isolation and identification; (iii) EUR 21,5 per Campylobacter isolation and identification; (iv) EUR 15 per antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of each Salmonella or E. coli isolate; (v) EUR 15 per AST of each Campylobacter isolate; (vi) EUR 17,5 per characterisation and classification of Salmonella or E. coli isolates showing resistance to third-generation cephalosporins and meropenem; (vii) EUR 22 per Salmonella serotyping; (viii) the maximum amounts indicated in Annex I; (c) only the costs indicated in Annex II shall be eligible for contribution.

1 The Union contribution is subject to the following conditions: (a) by 31 May 2015, the Member States have provided to the European Food Safety Authority who was mandated for this task by the European Commission, with a technical report covering at least the information requested in Part B of the Annex to Implementing Decision 2013/652/EU; (b) by 31 May 2015, the Member States have provided the Commission, in electronic form, with a financial report according to the format laid out in Annex III to this Decision. In order to be eligible for funding, the expenditure incurred must have been paid before the submission of the claim. The supporting documents evidencing all the expenditure referred to in the financial report shall be sent to the Commission on request only.

2 The Commission may reduce the amount of the contributions referred to in Annex I in cases where the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article are not met, having regard to the nature and gravity of the non-compliance and to the potential financial loss for the Union.

For reasons of administrative efficiency all expenditure submitted for a financial contribution by the Union should be expressed in euro. When a Member State’s expenditure is in a currency other than euro, the Member State shall convert it into euro by applying the most recent exchange rate set by the European Central Bank prior to the first day of the month in which the application is submitted by the Member State concerned.

This Decision constitutes a financing decision in the meaning of Article 84 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.