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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report
DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain)
management for emerging plant pests, and US$ 67 million for the Fruit Fly exclusion and detection
programme, while there are supplementary funding lines covering plant pest surveillance, and
emergencies. In Canada, the CFIA budget for the Plant Health Program for 2009-10 (planned spending)
is CAN$ 61.3 million (but planned to be reduced to CAN$ 49.9 in 2010-11), although the scope of the
programme appears to be larger than the current CPHR, for example on IAS. In Australia, the budget
for 2009-10 under the Plant Health Australia (Plant Industries) Funding Act 2002 306 is AUS$ 1,811
million (actual budget). A description of the US and Canada plant health activities is provided in
Annex 2.
In comparison, the total financial contribution granted in the framework of the Solidarity regime for the
years 1999-2009 (10 years) was €29.2 million. It is noted that these figures are not directly comparable,
due to differences in definitions and the scope and objectives of the EU versus third country plant
health programmes, and do not take into account the value and volume of related plant production and
trade, nor the cost-benefit of the various measures taken 307 .
In value terms, the share of production of plants and plant products is comparable to that of animals
and animal products (Figure 3-17). The share of plant products and animal products in EU exports is
also comparable (in 2009, each of the sub-sectors accounted for around 20% of exports of food
products). The analysis of potential impacts of phytosanitary outbreaks in section 3.11.2 has
highlighted that these can be of a scale comparable to major animal health outbreaks.
The Community financing system developed for animal health is a more comprehensive mechanism
than the plant health solidarity regime. This loss-based compensation system is defined in Council
Decision 90/424/EEC (the ―Veterinary Fund‖) and mainly consists of two mechanisms:
The co-funding of the control, eradication and monitoring programmes (budget line 17.0401 of
the ―Veterinary Fund‖);
The Emergency fund for the financing of emergency measures in the event of livestock epidemics
(budget line 17.0403 of the ―Veterinary Fund‖).
The control, eradication and monitoring programmes aim at progressively eliminating animal diseases
that are endemic in certain areas of the EU, and include checks aimed at the prevention of zoonoses.
They cover a wide range of measures including diagnostic methods, vaccination, testing and culling of
animals, slaughtering of animals and compensation for all these measures, plus the emergency
measures. The scope of such programmes is thus much larger than that of the solidarity regime.
5.9.2 Required financial resources
306 The purpose of the Act is stated to be: ―To require the Commonwealth to pay amounts of levy and charge it has collected
on behalf of certain plant industries to Plant Health Australia Limited. The Bill also provides a mechanism for any excess
levies or charges that are collected to be appropriated to relevant plant industry research and development bodies.‖ Plant
Health Australia (Plant Industries) Funding Act 2002
307 It is noted that some third countries are regularly evaluating the performance and cost-effectiveness of some of their
measures, e.g. US, Canada and Australia.
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