5.6.2012 Official Journal of the European Union L 145/1 II (Non-legislative acts) DECISIONS COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 22 May 2012 amending Decision 2008/425/EC as regards standard requirements for the submission by Member States of national programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of certain animal diseases and zoonoses for Union financing (notified under document C(2012) 3193) (Text with EEA relevance) (2012/282/EV) 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 particular Article 27(10) thereof, by Member States of national programmes for the eradi- cation, control and monitoring of certain animal diseases and zoonoses for Community financing (%) provides that Member States seeking a financial contribution from the Union for national programmes for the eradication, monitoring and control of certain animal diseases are to submit applications containing certain information set out in Annexes I to V to that Decision. 4 Regulation (EC) No999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying Whereas: down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies () provides for annual monitoring programmes by (1)  Decision 2009/470/EC lays down the procedures Merr%ber. States for tfansmissible .spong‘iform encephalo- governing the Union financial contribution for pathies in bovine, ovine and caprine animals. That Regu- for th dicati | and I lation has been amended several times since the adoption programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring f Decision 2008/425/EC s rul latine ¢ of animal diseases and zoonoses. ot Decision o[t as regards rues relating o monitoring and eradication activities co-financed under the programmes. (2)  Decision 2009/470/EC provides that each year, by 30 April at the latest, Member States are to submit to the Commission the annual or multiannual programmes starting in the following year for which they wish to (55 Commission Decision 2010/367/EU of 25 June 2010 on G) receive a financial contribution from the Union. Pursuant to that Decision, 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 the Annex to that Decision. Commission Decision 2008/425/EC of 25 April 2008 laying down standard requirements for the submission () O] L 155, 18.6.2009, p. 30. the implementation by Member States of surveillance programmes for avian influenza in poultry and wild birds (¥) was adopted in the light of experience and scientific  insight gained since the adoption of Commission ~ Decision ~ 2007/268/EC (°).  Decision 2007/268[EC was repealed by Decision 2010/367/EU. Decision 2008/425/EC should be updated to take into account these changes, in particular those related to the objectives of surveillance programmes. 159, 18.6.2008, p. 1. 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1. () O] L () O] L (9 O] L 166, 1.7.2010, p. 22. () OJ L 115, 3.5.2007, p. 3.