Commission decision on funding BSE tests in Europe published officially
The amount of money each Member State of the European Union is set to get from the European Commission as a result of the recent concern over BSE in the Community is now formally described in the Official Journal of the European Communities. 'Following recent developments of the BSE situation a revised testing programme has been exceptionally agreed on by the Community,' says the Commission. The programme foresees two testing phases. The first targets all cattle aged over 30 months 'subject to emergency slaughter or displaying clinical signs at slaughter as well as a random sample from dead-on-farm cattle'. The second phase should include 'all bovine animals over 30 months of age subject to normal slaughter or human consumption'. The programme for monitoring of BSE presented in each of the following Member States is approved for the period 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2001 with financial help from the Community up to the following figures for each country: - Austria: 197,700 euro - Belgium: 171,000 euro - Denmark: 321,000 euro - Germany: 3,450,000 - Greece: 90,000 - Spain: 1,136,000 - France: 4,800,000 - Ireland: 210,000 - Italy: 2,500,000 - Luxembourg: 82,500 - The Netherlands: 1,260,000 - Portugal: 180,000 - Finland: 306,000 - Sweden: 577,800 - United Kingdom: 270,000.