Community policy on animal health: multi-annual eradication, control and monitoring programmes for animal diseases and zoonoses, integrated computerized veterinary system TRACES and ANIMO, information policy for food safety (amend. Decision 90/424/EEC)

PURPOSE : to amend Decision 90/424/EEC on expenditure in the veterinary field in order to update Community instruments on animal health.

PROPOSED ACT : Council Decision.

CONTENT : this proposal does not aim to change the policy on eradication, control and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses. By the present proposal, the Commission envisages updating some of the instruments that accompany Community policy on animal health by:

- amending current procedures governing Community’s contribution to the financing of national programmes for the eradication monitoring and control of animal diseases as foreseen in Article 24 of Council Decision 90/424/EEC on expenditure in the veterinary field;

- introducing the possibility for the Community to approve and finance multi-annual eradication, control and monitoring programmes for animal diseases and zoonoses;

- updating the scope of the existing financial measures aimed at improving information policy on animal health and food safety in products of animal origin and the use of integrated computerized veterinary systems (TRACES).

For further information concerning the financial implications of this measure, please refer to the financial statement.