No L 96/32 3. 4. 85 Official Journal of the European Communities COMMISSION DECISION of 26 March 1985 amending Decision 77/97/EEC on the financing by the Community of certain emergency measures in the field of animal health (85/212/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commis- sion ('), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (3), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee, Whereas Decision 77/97/EEC (%), as last amended by Decision 81/177/EEC (*), has laid down as an initial step certain measures to be applied in the case of outbreaks of certain exotic diseases including exotic foot-and-mouth disease ; Whereas the extension of these measures to foot-and- mouth disease caused by non-exotic viruses and their rapid and strict application will avert the spread of the disease and increase the guarantees in trade, thereby facilitating the dismantling of trade barriers; Whereas it is therefore desirable that the Community should participate in financing the implementation of these new emergency measures ; Whereas Community financial aid should be limited to the first 20 outbreaks that occur in the first 30 days in any one single epizootic of non-exotic foot-and- mouth disease in any one Member State and/or to vaccinations that are performed in the first 40 days of this epizootic, because the thoroughness and rapidity of action taken in the initial phase of the disease will determine the extent of the subsequent development thereof ; ' Whereas the Community must be in a position to ascertain that the provisions adopted by Member States for the implementation of those measures will contri- bute towards achievement of the objectives thereof ; whereas, to this end, provision should be made for a procedure establishing close cooperation between the () OJ No C 327, 8. 12. 1984, p. 3. 2 O] No C 72, 18. 3. 1985, p. 122. () O] No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 78. () OJ No L 186, 8. 7. 1981, p. 22. Member States and the Commission within the Standing Veterinary Committee, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 Decision 77/97/EEC is hereby amended as follows : 1. Article 1 is amended as follows : (@) in paragraph 1, first subparagraph, ‘and non- exotic’ is added between ‘exotic’ and ‘foot’; (b) in paragraph 1, first subparagraph, the first indent is replaced by the following : ‘— the slaughter of animals of susceptible species which are afflicted or infected or suspected of being so, and their destruction in cases where the disease involved is trans- missible by meat’; (©) in paragraph 3, first indent, the following sentence is added : ‘However, in the case of outbreaks of non-exotic foot-and-mouth  disease, . the Community’s financial contribution shall be limited to the first 20 outbreaks that occur in the first 30 days in any one Member State, following official confirmation of the first outbreak ; such first 20 outbreaks must have been due to a virus of one and the same stereotype and be epidemiologi- cally linked to one another.’ (d) in paragraph 3, second indent, the following is added : ‘However, in the case of outbreaks of non-exotic foot-and-mouth  disease, the Comtnunity’s financial contribution shall be limited to vacci- nation carried out during the first 40 days following official confirmation of the first outbreak. The official confirmation of the first outbreak must be made by one of the national laboratories listed in the Annex. This list may be amended in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 5. (e) in paragraph 4 the last sentence is deleted; (f) a new paragraph 5 is added as follows: ‘S.  Whether or not an outbreak of foot-and- mouth disease is to be considered as exotic or