Amendments to Implementing Decision 2011/807/EU
Article 4
Implementing Decision 2011/807/EU in amended as follows:
1. in Article 9(2), point (b) is replaced by the following:
  1. shall be at the rate of 50 % of the cost incurred by each Member State for the compensation to be paid to owners for the value of their animals:
    1. culled and destroyed in accordance with their BSE and scrapie eradication programmes;
    2. compulsorily slaughtered in accordance with Annex VII, Chapter A, point 2.3(d) of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;
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2. in Article 9(3), point (b) is replaced by the following:
(b) | for culled and destroyed sheep or goats: | EUR 70 per animal;
(c) | for slaughtered sheep or goats: | EUR 50 per animal.
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3. in Article 13, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:
4.
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 2, for the programmes referred to in Articles 10 and 11, the Commission, upon the request of the concerned Member State, shall pay an advance of up to 60 % of the specified maximum amount within the 3 months following the receipt of the request.
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4. in the Annex, point 2 is replaced by the following:
  1. Compensation to owners for the value of their animals slaughtered or culled.
    - The compensation shall not exceed the market value of the animal immediately before it was slaughtered or culled.
    - For slaughtered animals, the salvage value, if any, shall be deducted from the compensation.
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