L 164/64 Official Journal of the European Union 26.6.2009 I (Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory) DECISIONS COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 22 June 2009 on a Community financial contribution towards Trust Fund 911100MTF/INT/003/EEC (TFEU 970089129) to assist the campaign against foot-and-mouth disease outside the Community (2009/492/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Decision 90/424/EEC of 26 June 1990 on expenditure in the veterinary field (), and in particular Article 13 thereof, Whereas: 1) Decision 90/424/EEC lays down the procedure governing the Community’s financial contribution towards specific veterinary measures. Those measures are to include the campaign against foot-and-mouth disease. That Decision provides that any measure decided by the Community to assist the campaign against foot-and-mouth disease outside the Community, in particular with the view to protect areas at risk within the Community, may receive a Community financial contribution. In the context of major epidemics of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the late 1950s both within the Community and in neighbouring countries, the European Commission for the Control of Foot-and- Mouth Disease (EUFMD) was founded within the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. In the 1960s, due to increased threats from the intro- duction of exotic strains of FMD into Europe, the Member Countries of the EUFMD were called to establish a Trust Fund aimed at emergency measures to () OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19. ) ) 0] 0] be carried out in the Balkans, the main entrance route of the disease. That fund was later divided into Trust Fund 911100MTF/003/EEC supported by those Member Countries that were at the same time Member States of the Community and Trust Fund 909700MTF/004/MUL supported by member countries of EUFMD which at that time were not or are still not Member States of the Community. Article 4 of Council Directive 90/423/EEC (?) provided for the cessation of prophylactic vaccination against FMD throughout the Community in 1991. Council Directive 2003/85/EC of 29 September 2003 on Community measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease (}) reconfirmed the prohibition of prophylactic vaccination while extending the possibility for the use of emergency vaccination against FMD. A number of outbreaks of FMD reported since 1992, in particular in parts of the Community adjacent to ende- mically infected third countries, and a major epidemic in certain Member States in 2001 necessitate a high level of disease awareness and preparedness, including inter- national cooperation. In addition, outbreaks and, in some cases, severe epidemics have been recorded in third countries neigh- bouring the Member States during recent years which are liable to threaten the health status of Community susceptible livestock. L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 13. L 306, 22.11.2003, p. 1.