Decision 2009/470/EC lays down the procedures governing the financial contribution by the Union for programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses.

The Commission has assessed the reports submitted by the Member States on the expenditures incurred for those programmes. The results of that assessment show that certain Member States will not utilise their full allocation for the year 2011 while others will spend in excess of the allocated amount.

Certain Member States have informed the Commission that, under the current financial situation, additional support to the compensation of owners of culled animals and other measures financed at a level of 50 % is required to ensure the continuity of the EU co-financed veterinary programmes, in order to maintain the positive trend regarding the different diseases.

The Commission examined the requests for an increased level of funding taking into account the veterinary situation and the availability of funds from the current financial year, and considered appropriate that the eligible measures financed at a level of 50 %, receive reinforced support by modifying the level of funding to 60 %.

The financial contribution by the Union for a number of national programmes therefore needs to be adjusted. It is appropriate to reallocate funding from national programmes which will not use their full allocation to those that are expected to exceed it. The reallocation should be based on the most recent information on expenditure actually incurred by the concerned Member States.

In addition, Portugal has submitted an amended programme for the eradication of bovine brucellosis, Latvia has submitted an amended programme for the control of salmonellosis, Romania and Slovakia have submitted amended programmes for the control and monitoring of classical swine fever, Denmark has submitted an amended survey programme for avian influenza in poultry and wild birds, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Luxembourg, Hungary, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom have submitted amended programmes for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and scrapie and Romania, Slovenia and Finland submitted amended programmes for the eradication of rabies.

The Commission has assessed those amended programmes from both the veterinary and the financial point of view. They were found to comply with relevant Union veterinary legislation and in particular with the criteria set out in the Annex to Decision 2008/341/EC. The amended programmes should therefore be approved.

Decision 2010/712/EU should therefore be amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,