EC Ups Budget for Animal Disease Control
EU - Commission Decision 2008/897/EC is providing a budget of €223 million to eradicate, control and monitor animal diseases in in the EU-27 in 2009, according to a new GAIN Livestock and Products Report from USDA Foreign Agricultural Service entitled EC Animal disease eradication; control and monitoring program for 2009. Top priorities will be Bluetongue disease, avian influenza and salmonella programmes, and TSE in small ruminants.