Contingency Planning for Animal Diseases by Nordic Council of Ministers

Author:Nordic Council of Ministers
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789289327121
Publisher: Norden

2.3.4 Financing of measures related to preventing, controlling and eradicating infectious diseases in livestock, poultry and live fish. Who shall pay?

Stig Mellergaard, DVM, Danish Veterinary and Food Administration

According to the EU Animal Health Strategy (2007–2013) the key concept is “Prevention is better than cure.” So far, problems with notifiable diseases have been a case for the veterinary authorities of the Member States. This new concept implies that the main responsibility for the prevention of notifiable animal diseases will be in the hands of the individual farmer.

Disease prevention at farm level has so far not been dealt with as a Community matter so the costs for such measures has been borne by the individual farmers as a normal part of their biosecurity measures. The Commission has considered the possibility of finding a solution where investments in biosecurity on farm level could receive co-financing via some of the existing agricultural support systems.

The responsibility for disease control and eradication has been and will still be on the competent veterinary authorities. However, the financing of the cost involved in these activities have in most Member States been made by the national veterinary authorities while in other Member States different models for shared responsibility has been developed. In the Animal Health Strategy it is proposed that the responsibility and as well as the costs should be shared between the individual farmer and/or the agricultural industry and the national authorities.

The Commission has presented some considerations on the overall principles for a cost sharing model and for co-financing of veterinary crisis on Member State level but these have met some opposition from Member States. However, some Member States have already established different systems for cost sharing and these systems together with the Commissions considerations will be presented for future inspiration.

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