L 157/38 Official Journal of the European Communities 15.6.2002 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1040/2002 of 14 June 2002 establishing detailed rules for the implementation of the provisions relating to the allocation of a financial contribution from the Community for plant-health control and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2051/97 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community (!), as last amended by Commission Directive 2002/36/EC (%), and in particular the last subparagraph of Article 23(5) thereof, Whereas: (1) Pursuant to Directive 2000/29/EC, a financial contribu- tion from the Community may be granted to Member States to cover expenditure relating directly to the neces- sary measures which have been taken or are planned for the purpose of combating harmful organisms introduced from third countries or from other areas in the Commu- nity, in order to eradicate or, if that is not possible, to contain them. (2)  Member States may, in particular, request a Community financial contribution for specific measures which they have adopted or planned to adopt to control infections by harmful organisms introduced in their territory. The upper limit of this contribution is 50 % of eligible expen- diture. (3)  The application of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2051/97 of 20 October 1997 establishing detailed rules for the implementation of the provisions relating to the allocation of a plant-health control financial contribution from the Community (¥) has shown that more detailed rules are necessary, and in particular the requirements concerning the information which Member States must submit to justify a claim for a Community financial contribution should be made more precise. (4)  The new rules should specify the information to be provided by the Member States’ applications for the Community financial contribution, in particular evidence of the eradication programme in respect of the harmful organism for which a financial contribution for plant- health control is requested. (5)  In accordance with Article 3(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 (¥), veterinary and plant health measures undertaken in accordance with Community rules shall be financed under the Guarantee section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund. Financial control of these measures comes under Articles 8 and 9 of the above Regulation. () OJ L 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1. () OJ L 116, 3.5.2002, p. 16. () OJL 287, 21.10.1997, p. 13. () OJL 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103. (6)  Regulation (EC) No 2051/97 should therefore be repealed. (7 The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plant Health, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 1. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 23(4), first subparagraph, of Directive 2000/29/EC, Member States’ appli- cations for the allocation of a financial contribution from the Community for plant-health control pursuant to Article 23(5) of Directive 2000/29/EC shall be submitted in writing by 30 April at the latest of each year by the authority referred to in Article 1(4) of that Directive for examination in that year and addressed to the Commission of the European Communities, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium. 2. Applications shall include information on the eradication programme in respect of the harmful organism for which a financial contribution for plant-health control is requested, in particular: (a) general information on the appearance of the relevant harmful organism, including details as the date on which its presence was suspected or confirmed, and the presumed cause of the appearance; (b) the necessary measures which have been taken or are planned for combating the relevant harmful organism, their expected duration and where available, the results obtained, the actual or estimated cost of the expenditure incurred or to be incurred, and the proportion of such expenditure covered or to be covered from public funds. The duration shall be no more than two years after the date of detection of the appearance of the relevant harmful organism, except in duly justified cases, where two such further applications of each one year may be submitted. Article 2 1. For the purposes of the examination referred to in Article 1(1), Member States shall submit a dossier including, for each year of the programme: (a) a copy of the notification of the presence or of the appear- ance of the relevant organism, in accordance with Article 16(1) or (2) of Directive 2000/29/EC;