L 194/56 Official Journal of the European Union 25.7.2009 I (Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory) DECISIONS COMMISSION DECISION of 22 July 2009 approving certain amended programmes for the eradication and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses for the year 2009 and amending Decision 2008/897/EC as regards the Community’s financial contribution to certain Member States for programmes approved by that Decision (notified under document number C(2009) 5475) (2009/560/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (3) Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, France, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Portugal and Finland have submitted amended programmes for the eradication and monitoring of bluetongue. Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, (4 The Commission has assessed those amended programmes from both the veterinary and the financial point of view. Those programmes were found to comply with relevant Community veterinary legislation and in particular with the criteria set out in Commission Decision 2008/341/EC of 25 April 2008 laying down Community criteria for national programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of certain animal diseases and zoonoses (}). Those amended programmes should therefore be approved. Having regard to Council Decision 90/424/EEC of 26 June 1990 on expenditure in the veterinary field (), and in particular Article 24(5) and (6) and Article 25(1) and (2) thereof, Whereas: (1)  Decision 90[424[EEC lays down the procedures governing the Community’s financial contribution for programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses. (5)  Denmark, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland and the United Kingdom have submitted amended programmes for the monitoring of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). (2)  Commission Decision 2008/897/EC of 28 November 2008 approving annual and multi-annual national programmes and the financial contribution from the Community for the eradication, control and monitoring of certain animal diseases and zoonoses presented by the (6)  The Commission has assessed those amended (") ) O] O] Member States for 2009 and following years () approves certain national programmes and sets out the rate and maximum amount of the Community’s financial contribution for each programme submitted by the Member States. L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19. L 322, 2.12.2008, p. 39. programmes from both the veterinary and the financial point of view. Those programmes were found to comply with relevant Community veterinary legislation and in particular with the criteria set out in Decision 2008/341/EC. Those amended programmes should therefore be approved. () OJ L 115, 29.4.2008, p. 44.