6.12.2011 Official Journal of the European Union L 322/11 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 30 November 2011 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 2012 and following years (notified under document C(2011) 8719) (2011/807[EU) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, 4 Regulation (EC) No999/2001 of the European 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 particular Article 27(5) thereof, Whereas: () O] L OJ L 115, 29.4.2008, p. 44. ) 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. In addition, Article 27(1) of Decision 2009/470/EC provides that a Union financial measure is to be introduced to reimburse the expenditure incurred by the Member States for the financing of national programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of the animal diseases and zoonoses listed in Annex 1 to that Decision. 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 (%) provides that in order to be approved under the Union financial measures, programmes submitted by the Member States must meet at least the criteria set out in the Annex to that Decision. 155, 18.6.2009, p. 30. () Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies () provides for annual monitoring programmes by Member States for transmissible spongiform encepha- lopathies (TSEs) in bovine, ovine and caprine animals. Council Directive 2005/94/EC of 20 December 2005 on Community measures for the control of avian influenza (*) also provides for surveillance programmes by Member States to be carried out in respect of poultry and wild birds in order to contribute, inter alia, on the basis of regularly updated risk-assessments, to the knowledge on the threats posed by the wild birds in relation to any influenza virus of avian origin in birds. Those annual programmes, and their financing, for moni- toring should also be approved. Certain Member States have submitted to the Commission annual programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of animal diseases, programmes of checks aimed at the prevention of zoonoses, and annual monitoring programmes for the eradication and monitoring of certain TSEs for which they wish to receive a financial contribution from the Union. For the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 certain multi- annual programmes submitted by Member States for the eradication, control and monitoring of the animal diseases were approved under Commission Decisions 2007/782/EC (5), 2008/897[EC (°), 2009/883/EC () and 2010/712/EU (¥). L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1. L 10, 14.1.2006, p. 16. L 314, 1.12.2007, p. 29. L , 2.12.2008, p. 39. L , 3.12.2009, p. 36. L 25.11.2010, p. 18. 309