Traduction de «Système de notification des maladies animales » (Français → Anglais) :

1. Aid to compensate farmers for the costs of prevention and eradication of animal or plant diseases or pest infestations incurred for the costs of health checks, tests and other screening measures, purchase and administration of vaccines, medicines and plant protection products, slaughter and destruction costs of animals and costs of destruction of crops shall be compatible with the common market within the meaning of Article 87(3)(c) of the Treaty and shall be exempt from the notification ...[+++] requirement of Article 88(3) of the Treaty if it fulfils the following conditions and the conditions set out in paragraphs 4 to 8 of this Article:

For the purpose of animal disease notification procedures, information on outbreaks of diseases in accordance with Directive 82/894/EEC of 21 December 1982 on the notification of animal diseases within the Community is notified through the Animal Disease Notification System (ADNS).

before the 2001 crisis the Commission did not subject the arrangements for prevention and control of the disease to adequate evaluation that took account of the changes in the risk factors; as the Commission did not carry out comprehensive evaluations and inspections in time, a number of weaknesses in the prevention and control arrangements concerning protective measures at borders, animal feed, animal movements and notification of the disease were not corrected before the outbreak of the epidemic; during the crisis the Commission rapidly took the necessary emergency measures, such as notification of the disease to the Member States, ...[+++]surveillance and slaughter of sheep which had been imported from the United Kingdom before the crisis began, and the closure of markets; the shortcomings in the system and in its application in the Member States in respect of the number of vets, notification of the disease and the speed at which culling was carried out were identified by the Commission during the crisis but it was too late to remedy them; the way in which the Community financing system was applied during the crisis led to inconsistencies: the reimbursement rates for the various animal diseases have been aligned only for the pig sector; there were delays in reimbursements to Member States; during the crisis, in the absence of a more clearly defined Community framework, the Member States were able to introduce a variety of systems to compensate farmers, based on varying methods of assessing the value of the animals before slaughter; after the crisis many shortcomings were remedied; nevertheless, the financial framework has not been revised and a number of Community measures are still inadequate with regard to the supervision of farms, notification of disease and speed in culling; these could compromise the effectiveness of the prevention and control arrangements in containing a future epidemic, while the Community would be obliged to reimburse the expenditure ...

TRACES: Commission adopts new system to manage animal movements and prevent the spread of animal diseases

The Faroe Island contingency plan for fish diseases, which includes the use of a vaccine and a withdrawal scheme for fish infected with infectious salmon anaemia, implies ensuring that information on disease outbreaks is passed to the Commission by means of the Animal Disease Notification System in the same manner as for Member States of the EU.

The Council adopted a Decision determining the position to be adopted by the Community within the EC-Faroe Islands Joint Committee with regard to approval of the contingency plan for fish diseases and the inclusion of the Faroe Islands in the Animal Disease Notification System (9240/05).