21.9.2006 Official Journal of the European Union L 258/5 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 19 September 2006 as regards financial aid from the Community for the year 2006 for the Community reference laboratories for brucellosis and foot-and-mouth disease (notified under document number C(2006) 4124) (Only the English and French texts are authentic) (2006/632/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 28(2) thereof, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules (3), and in particular Article 32(7) thereof, Whereas: (1)  Decision 90/424[EEC lays down procedures governing the Community’s financial contribution in the veterinary field. Community reference laboratories may be granted financial aid in accordance with that Decision. (2)  Council Directive 2003/85/EEC of 29 September 2003 on Community measures for the control of foot-and- mouth disease repealing Directive 85/511/EEC and Decisions 89/531/EEC and 91/665/EEC and amending Directive 92[46/EEC (}) provides for the designation of (") OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19. Decision as last amended by Decision 2006/53(EC (O] L 29, 2.2.2006, p. 37). () OJ L 165, 30.4.2004, p. 1, corrected by O] L 191, 28.5.2004, p- 1. Regulation as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 776/2006 (O] L 136, 24.5.20006, p. 3). () OJ L 306, 22.11.2003, p. 1. Directive as amended by Commission Decision 2005/615[EC (O] L 213, 18.8.2005, p. 14). a Community reference laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease. (3)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 156/2004 of 29 January 2004 on the Community’s financial assistance to the Community reference laboratories pursuant to Article 28 of Decision 90/424/EEC (*) provides that the financial assistance from the Community for the operation of laboratories is to be granted if the approved work programmes are efficiently carried out and the beneficiaries supply all the necessary information within certain time limits. (4 In July 2005, the Commission launched a call for the selection and designation of new Community reference laboratories. The evaluation of the applications was completed in December 2005 and the results were notified to the competent authorities of the Member States concerned. Following that evaluation the successful candidates were selected to be designated as new Community reference laboratories, including Community reference laboratories for brucellosis and foot-and-mouth disease. (5)  Annex VII to Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 contains a list of Community reference laboratories for animal health and live animals. That Regulation, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 776/2006, lists the AFSSA — Laboratoire d'études et de recherches en pathologie animale et zoonoses in France as the Community reference laboratory for brucellosis for the functions and duties referred in Article 32(2) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004. ) OJ L 27, 30.1.2004, p. 5.