CHAPTER IU.K. ANNUAL PROGRAMMES

Article 8U.K.Avian influenza in poultry and wild birds

1.The survey programmes for avian influenza in poultry and wild birds submitted by Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom are hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012.

2.The financial contribution by the Union:

(a)shall consist of a lump sum compensating for all costs incurred to perform the following activities and/or tests:

(i)

EUR 0,5 per sample from poultry flocks;

(ii)

EUR 5 per wild bird sampled in the framework of the passive surveillance;

(iii)

EUR 1 per ELISA test;

(iv)

EUR 1 per agar gel immune diffusion test;

(b)shall be at the rate of 50 % of the costs to be incurred by each Member State for the costs of carrying out laboratory tests other than those foreseen in point (a); and

(c)shall not exceed the following:

(i)

EUR 40 000 for Belgium;

(ii)

EUR 40 000 for Bulgaria;

(iii)

EUR 30 000 for the Czech Republic;

(iv)

EUR 40 000 for Denmark;

(v)

EUR 80 000 for Germany;

(vi)

EUR 10 000 for Estonia;

(vii)

EUR 60 000 for Ireland;

(viii)

EUR 10 000 for Greece;

(ix)

[F1EUR 140 000 for Spain;]

(x)

EUR 130 000 for France;

(xi)

[F1EUR 1 000 000 for Italy;]

(xii)

EUR 10 000 for Cyprus;

(xiii)

EUR 20 000 for Latvia;

(xiv)

EUR 10 000 for Lithuania;

(xv)

EUR 10 000 for Luxembourg;

(xvi)

EUR 130 000 for Hungary;

(xvii)

EUR 10 000 for Malta;

(xviii)

EUR 190 000 for the Netherlands;

(xix)

EUR 50 000 for Austria;

(xx)

EUR 100 000 for Poland;

(xxi)

EUR 20 000 for Portugal;

(xxii)

[F1EUR 350 000 for Romania;]

(xxiii)

EUR 30 000 for Slovenia;

(xxiv)

EUR 20 000 for Slovakia;

(xxv)

EUR 10 000 for Finland;

(xxvi)

EUR 40 000 for Sweden;

(xxvii)

[F1EUR 110 000 for the United Kingdom.]

3.The maximum of the costs to be reimbursed to the Member States for the tests covered by the programmes shall on average not exceed:

(a)HI test for H5/H7:EUR 12 per test;
(b)virus isolation test:EUR 40 per test;
(c)PCR test:EUR 20 per test.

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