18.12.2014 Official Journal of the European Union L 363/173 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 16 December 2014 approving certain amended programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses for the year 2014 and amending Implementing Decision 2013/722/EU as regards the Union financial contribution for certain programmes approved by that Decision (notified under document C(2014) 9650) (2014/925[EU) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Decision 2009/470/EC of 25 May 2009 on expenditure in the veterinary field (), and in par- ticular Article 27(5) and (6) thereof, Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 laying down provisions for the management of expenditure relating to the food chain, animal health and animal welfare, and relating to plant health and reproductive material, amending Council Directives 98/56/EC, 2000/29/EC and 2008/90/EC, Regulations (EC) No 178/2002, (EC) No 882/2004 and (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directive 2009/128/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Decisions 66/399/EEC, 76/894/EEC and 2009/470/EC (3, and in particular Article 45(1) thereof, Whereas: (1) Article 45(1), second sentence of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014, provides that for programmes implemented in 2014, the relevant provisions of Article 27 of Decision 2009/470/EC continue to apply. Decision 2009/470/EC lays down the procedures governing the Union financial contribution for programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses. (2)  Commission Decision 2008/341/EC (}) provides that, in order to be approved under the Union financial measure provided for in Article 27(1) of Decision 2009/470/EC, programmes submitted by the Member States to the Commission for the eradication, control and monitoring of the animal diseases and zoonoses listed in Annex I to that Decision are required to meet, at least, the criteria set out in the Annex to Decision 2008/341/EC. (3)  Commission Implementing Decision 2013/722/EU (*) approves certain national programmes for the year 2014 and sets out the rate and maximum amount of the Union financial contribution for each programme submitted by the Member States. (4)  Implementing Decision 2013/722EU also defines the measures that are eligible for a Union financial contribu- tion. However, the Commission informed the Member States in writing that certain measures will only be eligible if the activities carried out have been properly implemented. That was the case for the bovine tuberculosis eradi- cation programme approved for Ireland, where the cost of the tuberculin skin test was not deemed eligible due to the unsatisfactory results obtained in previous years. (5)  Following progress made by the competent authorities of Ireland in the implementation of the bovine tubercu- losis eradication programme, as acknowledged by the experts of the tuberculosis task force, the tuberculin skin test is approved for Union financial contribution, in line with the originally submitted programme. (6)  Portugal has submitted an amended programme for the eradication and monitoring of bluetongue. Hungary has submitted an amended programme for the eradication of rabies. Denmark has withdrawn the request for a Union financial contribution in 2014 towards the surveillance programme for avian influenza and the programme for the monitoring and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Poland has submitted an amended programme for the eradication of rabies. () OJL155,18.6.2009, p. 30. () OJL189,27.6.2014,p. 1. (®) 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 (O] L 115, 29.4.2008, p. 44). (*) Commission Implementing Decision 2013/722/EU of 29 November 2013 approving annual and multiannual programmes and the financial contribution from the Union for the eradication, control and monitoring of certain animal diseases and zoonoses presented by the Member States for 2014 and the following years (O] L 328, 7.12.2013, p. 101).