Funding has also been allocated to eradicate contagious bovine pleuropneumonia in the remaining pockets of this disease in the Community EU (0.8 million euro).

It appears that BSE is more contagious than was generally thought and that several other animal species can carry the disease.

Funding has also been allocated to eradicate contagious bovine pleuro pneumonia in the remaining pockets of this disease in the Community.

Whereas the competent authorities of Argentina have undertaken to notify the Commission and the Member States by telex or fax within 24 hours of the confirmation of the occurrence of any of the following diseases: rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, bluetongue, epizootic haemorrhagic disease, Rift Valley fever and contagious vesicular stomatitis or changes in the policy of vaccination against them;

It is, in fact, important to improve the financial mechanisms set up by Decision 90/424/EEC; - carry out, before the end of the year, a full review of the priorities in funding the programmes to combat diseases in the veterinary sector; - consider the long-term funding of expenditure in the veterinary field; - if the re-examination of the accounts at the beginning of 1994 or the review of combat programmes make it possible to release any additional finance, apply those resources, in compliance with the rules revised in accordance with the first indent, as a priority to combating rabies, African swine fever, IHN, contagious bovine pleuropneumo ...[+++]nia and bovine tuberculosis.

foot-and-mouth disease, swine fever, contagious swine paralysis, bovine brucellosis, swine brucellosis or anthrax, or from an area in which the measures referred to under (ii) are applied, it being understood that: (i) if all the animals of species susceptible to the disease have not been slaughtered and the premises disinfected, the period of prohibition must be at least thirty days from the date of the last recorded case in the case of foot-and-mouth disease, at least forty days in the case of swine fever or contagious swine paralys ...[+++]is, at least six weeks in the case of bovine or swine brucellosis and at least fifteen days in the case of anthrax;