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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report
DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain)
iii. Annual budgets (on the basis of past expenditure) have been relatively modest, but
have been adapted to the needs when necessary, as shown in the case of Pinewood
Nematode (PWN).
The financial instruments in use in MS (public compensation to growers, public and private
insurance systems, etc.) have been looked at by the evaluation of the Financial Aspects of the
CPHR (solidarity regime) undertaken by the FCEC (final report of March 2008). The
outcome of this Plant Health – Financial Aspects report has been integrated in the current
CPHR evaluation and the analysis has been further developed. It is more specifically noted
that since the preparation of the 2008 report the situation has evolved notably due to the fact
that intervention requests have increased very considerably compared to the situation
reviewed by the previous evaluation. In this context, other more recent developments and
mechanisms available at EU level were also examined 41 .
A fuller presentation of the financial aspects of the CPHR, including the budget devoted to
this sector to date, is provided in Annex 3.
In addition to the Solidarity Régime, DG SANCO also manages the phytosanitary dossiers
introduced under the POSEIDOM 42 programme (as regards the DOM regions of France) and
the POSEIMA 43 programme (as regards Madeira Island and the Azores). Both programmes
were originally developed with the objective of bringing the remote and backward economies
of the Community closer to the more prosperous continental economies. Plant health is only
one area of possible funding under these mechanisms, which are quite large in cope and also
cover modernization of infrastructure etc.
Example of dossiers introduced by France under the POSEIDOM programme are as follows:
a sub-programme drawn up for the department of Martinique in two parts: plant health
evaluation and diagnostics by use of the regional laboratory and its mobile unit (―labo
vert‖), and study of the biodiversity in fruit or vegetable farms;
a sub-programme drawn up for the department of Guyana in two parts: set up of an
agricultural phytosanitary warning system for rice production, and strengthening of the
diagnostic capacity by the use of the regional laboratory and its mobile unit (―labo vert‖);
a sub-programme drawn up for the department of Guadeloupe in four parts: set up of an
survey network for fruit flies, survey and follow-up of the coconut lethal yellowing
disease, management of the risk of introduction of harmful organisms by the touristic
activity, and bio depollution of soils contaminated by chlordecone and HCH.
41 It is noted that a new mechanism of financial assistance in cases of economic losses due to plant diseases
(among others) is established by Council Regulation (EC) 73/2009 (Council Regulation (EC) no. 73/2009 of 19
January 2009 "establishing common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural
policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers‖). Art. 70 (1) and 71 define respectively the
possibility for MS to grant respectively financial contribution to premiums for plant insurances and to mutual
funds. The first may be applied‖ against economic losses caused by adverse climatic events and animal or plant
diseases or pest infestation‖, whereas the latter in cases of ―the outbreak of an animal or plant disease or an
environmental incident‖. The conditions for such contributions are further specified within the mentioned
articles; this mechanism has been in place since January 2010.
42
Programme d'options spécifiques à l'éloignement et à l'insularité des départements Français
43 Programme d'options spécifiques à l'éloignement et à l'insularité de Madère et des Açores
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