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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report
DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain)
The cost calculation for the conducting of PRAs is based on data provided by 8 MS CAs
during the preliminary cost survey. It indicates that the funds available for this purpose are
very limited.
The administrative costs amount to € 5,025,967 on average per year and represent 8.49% of
the total cost. They refer mainly to the management of the dossiers for registration and for
authorization to issue plant passports, the issuance of plant passports by the CA (applicable
for all plant passports in PL and RO and for plant passports for seed potatoes and possibly
propagating materials in 13 MS) as well as the notification of third country interceptions
through EUROPHYT. No separate costs are identified for CA for the obligation ‗Keeping of
records‘, as these costs mainly concern the obligations ‗registration‘ and ‗authorization to
issue plant passport‘ and are included under these two obligations.
In addition to the costs presented in Table 1-4, which are calculated on an annual basis, there
are costs associated to the implementation of measures to eradicate or, if this is considered
impossible, to inhibit the spread of the HO.
Based on data provided by 18 MS CAs 221 , the total costs incurred by MS for this obligation
amounts to € 133,504.335 over the period 1993-2008 (or from the data of accession for the
NMS). In addition, 4 MS have indicated that they have provided compensation to producers
for a total amount of € 9,191,780. A number of MS have also received reimbursement through
the Solidarity Regime, for a total amount of € 29,257,732.
The outbreaks concerned and the type of costs incurred by the MS CA are summarized in the
following table.
Table 3-28: Outbreaks considered in the analysis of eradication costs incurred by CAs
over the period 1993-2008
Country Main outbreaks of HO over the period 1993-2008 (or
since date of accession for NMS)
AT Erwinia amylovora (1998, 1999, 2000);
Diabrotica virgifera (2003)
BE Diabrotica virgifera virgifera (2003-2004, 2005, 2006);
ramorum (every year);
Ralstonia solanacearum (2002)(2003);
Clavibacter michiganensis(2003).
Type of cost covered by MS CA
Costs eligible for Solidarity funding
Treatment, destruction,
compensation and other direct costs
221 The calculations are made with the data available, and are therefore not exhaustive.
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