On the basis of the applications submitted by the Member States and analysed by the Commission, the allocation of Union funding for 2014 to cover expenditure incurred by Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria relating to necessary measures as specified in Article 23(2)(a), (b) and (c) of Directive 2000/29/EC and taken for the purpose of combating the organisms concerned by the requests listed in Annex I to this Decision, is hereby approved.

On the basis of the application submitted by Spain and analysed by the Commission, the allocation of Union funding for 2014 to cover expenditure incurred by that Member State and relating to further actions, as specified in Article 23(6) of Directive 2000/29/EC, to control Bursaphelenchus xylophilus in the request listed in Annex II to this Decision, is hereby approved.

The total amount of the Union funding referred to in paragraph 1 is EUR 5 715 000. The maximum amounts of the Union funding for each of the requests shall be as indicated in Annex I or II to this Decision, respectively.

Those Union fundings shall be financed from the following line of the general budget of the European Union for 2014: budget line 17 04 04.

This Decision and its Annexes constitute a financing decision within the meaning of Article 84 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012.