Staff costs shall be limited to actual attributable labour costs (remuneration, wages, social charges and retirement costs) accrued in implementation of the study and performing laboratory tests. To this end monthly timesheets have to be maintained.

Daily rate will be calculated on a 220 working days/year.

Reimbursement of consumables shall be based on actual costs incurred by Member States to perform the tests at the laboratory.

Test kits, reagents and all consumables shall only be reimbursed if used specifically in the performance of the following tests:

• varroa count (washing),

• detection and characterisation of deformed wing virus (DWV), the acute bee paralysis virus (ABPV), the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida) and the tropilaelaps mite),

• clinical observation (including symptom observation foulbrood, nosema, viruses) microsporidian parasite (Nosema spp.) spore counts, cultures, microscopic examination and biochemical tests to identify the causal agent European foulbrood (Melissococcus plutonius) and American foulbrood (Paenibacillus larvae),

• American foulbrood — confirmation of the identity of the causal agent American foulbrood and European foulbrood via polymerase chain reaction (PCR).