Traduction de «éradication aphteuse » (Français → Anglais) :

94. Emphasises that since public health is in the interests of the whole of society, public funds must continue to be the main source of funding for Community eradication costs, and that farmers are also taxpayers; notes that farmers in some Member States contribute financially towards the national eradication costs (needed to co-finance the total costs), whereas other Member States do not demand contributions from the farming sector, which may harm the level playing field for agricultural producers in the EU; recalls that Parliament's Temporary Committee on Foot-and-Mouth Disease had requested the Commission to propose solutions as to ...[+++] how farmers could contribute to the Community's costs; notes the efforts made in different Member States and the study carried out for the Commission in 2003 exploring ways of obtaining financial contributions from farmers;

98. Emphasises that since public health is in the interests of the whole of society, public funds must continue to be the main source of funding for Community eradication costs, and that farmers are also taxpayers; notes that farmers in some Member States contribute financially towards the national eradication costs (needed to co-finance the total costs), whereas other Member States do not demand contributions from the farming sector, which may harm the level playing field for agricultural producers in the EU; recalls that Parliament's Temporary Committee on Foot-and-Mouth Disease had requested the Commission to propose solutions as to ...[+++] how farmers could contribute to the Community's costs; notes the efforts made in different Member States and the study carried out for the Commission in 2003 exploring ways of obtaining financial contributions from farmers;

Where wild animals are suspected of being infected with foot-and-mouth disease, the Member State concerned must take the necessary measures to confirm or rule out the presence of the disease, in particular by means of laboratory testing. As soon as it is confirmed that a wild animal has foot-and-mouth disease, the Member State concerned must take the necessary measures to limit the spread of the disease and draw up an eradication plan.

The 2001 FMD crisis in the United Kingdom provided a clear demonstration of the negative consequences which a stamping-out strategy can have in the event of an extensive and rapidly spreading FMD outbreak.

The development of an FMD vaccine in the 1950s contributed substantially to its subsequent eradication, as did the overall improvement in the health situation of livestock, the development of resources for detecting, monitoring and controlling diseases on the basis of a more collective approach to health crises and veterinary services that were well endowed with human and financial resources.

In response to the continuing foot-and-mouth crisis, would the Commission be willing to establish an emergency task force, under the chairmanship of Commissioner David Byrne and including an EU Commission expert on foot-and-mouth disease, which would monitor, approve, and sanction an eradication programme for foot-and-mouth disease throughout Europe, and particularly the UK, and which would meet on at least a daily basis to update information and take any necessary action?