Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/969 of 15 June 2016 laying down standard reporting requirements for national programmes for the eradication, control and surveillance of animal diseases and zoonoses co-financed by the Union and repealing Implementing Decision 2014/288/EU (notified under document C(2016) 3615) (Text with EEA relevance)

For national programmes approved for Union financial contribution and concerning African swine fever, avian influenza, bluetongue, bovine brucellosis, sheep and goat brucellosis, classical swine fever, rabies, Salmonella infection in certain poultry populations, bovine tuberculosis and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, intermediate and annual reports (including the payment requests) shall contain the information provided for in the forms referred to in Annexes I and II to this Decision.

Intermediate and annual reports referred to in Article 1 shall be submitted online by using the corresponding standard electronic templates set out in Annexes I and II.

For other diseases not included in the electronic templates, the Commission shall develop reports templates on an ad hoc basis and provide them to the concerned Member States. The reports shall be submitted by post or electronic means. For the annual report on aquaculture diseases, the Member States shall use the corresponding template set out in Annex III and submit the report by post or electronic means.

Implementing Decision 2014/288/EU is repealed.

This Decision shall apply to submissions of intermediate reports and of annual reports, including the payment requests, concerning programmes implemented as of 2016.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.