ANIMAL DISEASES FUNDS
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has increased the money it spends on fighting livestock diseases in the European Union (EU) to Euro 188 million in 2005, an increase of Euro 41 million. Brussels is to concentrate these funds on TSE's, with BSE monitoring getting the lion's share: Euro 98 million and Euro 32 million being spent on scrapie eradication. Despite Britain's exposure to BSE, it received only Euro 5.5 million for TSE monitoring, dwarfed by France's Euro 24 million allocation. The rest of the expanded EU budget is being spent on fighting 10 other ...
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