14.2.2009 Official Journal of the European Union L 4479 II (Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory) DECISIONS COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 13 February 2009 on the Community’s financial contribution to a programme for the control of organisms harmful to plants and plant products in the French overseas departments for 2009 (notified under document number C(2009) 801) (Only the French text is authentic) (2009/126/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (3)  The French authorities have submitted to the Commission a programme for 2009 providing for plant health measures in the French overseas departments. That programme specifies the objectives Having ?egard to the Treaty establishing the European to be achieved, the expected deliverables, the measures Community, to be carried out, their duration and their cost with a view to a possible Community financial contribution. The measures provided for in that programme fulfill Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 of the requirements of Decision 2007/609/EC. 30 January 2006 laying down specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union (!), and in particular the first sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 17(3), (4  In accordance with Article 3(2)(a) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 of 21 June 2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (%), plant-health measures are to be financed from the European Agricultural Whereas: Guarantee Fund. For the purposes of financial control of those measures Articles 9, 36 and 37 of that Regu- lation apply. (1) Growing conditions in the French overseas departments require special measures concerning crop production. Those measures include expensive plant health measures. (5)  The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plant Health, (2)  Commission Decision 2007/609/EC of 10 September 2007 on the definition of the measures eligible for Community financing in the programmes for the control of organisms harmful to plants and plant products in the French overseas departments, in the HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Azores and in Madeira (?) defines the measures eligible Article 1 for Community financing under programmes for the control of organisms harmful to plants and plant A Community financial contribution to France for the official products in the French overseas departments, the programme for the control of organisms harmful to plants and Azores and Madeira. plant products in the French overseas departments for 2009 as specified in Part A of the Annex, is approved. () O] L 42, 14.2.2006, p. 1. - () O] L 242, 15.9.2007, p. 20. () O] L 209, 11.8.2005, p. 1.