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

Article 1

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

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 appearance of the relevant organism, in accordance with Article 16(1) or (2) of Directive 2000/29/EC;

(b) information on inspections, testing and other actions undertaken to determine the nature and extent of the appearance of the relevant harmful organism, including the method used for these actions;

(c) the statutory notice requiring treatments like destruction, disinfection, disinfestation, sterilisation and other treatments to be carried out and an official description and assessment of their achievement/results, including the description of the methods used for these treatments;

(d) in case of payments of compensation for financial losses, other than loss of earnings, due to prohibitions and/or restrictions, as defined in point (c) of Article 23(2) of Directive 2000/29/EC, an official statement for payments made or to be made and the method of calculation;

(e) information on the identity of the consignment in accordance with the provisions of Article 23(4) of Directive 2000/29/EC or if not possible the reasons why it cannot be identified.

Moreover, Member States shall also submit the list of the amounts excluding VAT and taxes, paid or to be paid for carrying out the necessary measures for combating the relevant harmful organism and the part of these amounts covered by public funds. For each kind of such measures, the appropriate details shall be enclosed:

(a) for inspections and analyses, through a summary table indicating, inter alia, their dates, places and the unit costs;

(b) for treatments referred to in paragraph 1(c), the list of holdings/places treated, and the quantity of plants/areas treated;

(c) for payments referred to in paragraph 1(d), the list of beneficiaries.

Article 3

Article 4

In the above ranking, priority shall be given to those programmes that satisfy as much as possible the following criteria:

— protect the interest of the whole Community,

— show a higher probability of efficacy,

— supply the required information regarding the identity of the consignment.

Article 5

In order to receive payment of the financial contribution from the Community for an approved programme, the Member State shall submit a request for payment of the financial contribution in Euro to the Commission, by 30 September of the year following the year in which the programme has been approved at the latest.

The Member State's request shall include proof or evidence of payments through appropriate documentation, such as invoices or receipts.

Article 6

Regulation (EC) No 2051/97 is repealed.

Article 7

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply to applications seeking the payment of a financial contribution from the Community from 2003 onwards.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.