Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/144 of 28 January 2015 laying down the procedures for the submission of applications for grants and requests for payment, and the information relating thereto, in respect of the emergency measures against animal diseases referred to in Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2015) 250)

Member States shall provide within 30 days of the official confirmation of the occurrence of a disease listed in Annex I to that Regulation a preliminary information on the categories of animals and products concerned and the market values for each of those categories, using an electronic file in accordance with the template set out in Annex I to this Decision. At the same time, Member States shall provide a description of the ongoing and planned actions and the legislation for determining the values of the animals and products to be compensated.

No later than two months after the official confirmation of the occurrence of the disease, Member States shall submit to the Commission an application for a grant pursuant to Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 by means of an electronic file in accordance with the template ‘Preliminary budget’ set out in Annex II on the following: (a) the estimated costs of compensation to owners as referred to in Article 8(1)(a) and (c) of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014; (b) the estimated operational costs as referred to in Article 8(1)(b) and (d) to (g) of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014; (c) where applicable, the estimated other costs essential for the eradication of the disease as referred to in Article 8(1)(h) of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014, attaching an appropriate justification. The description of actions referred to in Article 1 is deemed to be part of the application for a grant. Every two months after the submission of the information referred to in the first paragraph, Member States shall submit updated information on the costs referred to in that paragraph.

Within six months after the end date fixed in the financing decision or the confirmation of the eradication of the disease, whichever is earlier, Member States shall submit to the Commission: (a) the request for payment for the eligible costs incurred, using an electronic file in accordance with the template set out in Annex III to this Decision; (b) the detailed costs supporting the request for payment with the detailed information on the costs made and paid for the different categories of eligible expenditure, by means of an electronic file, in accordance with the template set out in Annex IV to this Decision; (c) a technical report in accordance with Annex V to this Decision.

Where the amounts of the estimated costs or of the expenditure incurred by a Member State are in a currency other than the euro, the Member State concerned shall convert them 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 for a grant is submitted by the Member State.

This Implementing Decision is addressed to the Member States.