Commission Implementing Decision of 4 July 2012 concerning a financial contribution by the Union to certain Member States to support voluntary surveillance studies on honeybee colony losses (notified under document C(2012) 4396) (Only the Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2012/362/EU)

ANNEX I U.K.

Member State	Number of apiaries	Number of visits per apiary foreseen in the surveillance study	Total direct costs(Laboratory tests + visits for sampling and monitoring)	Overheads(7 %)	Total cost	EU contribution(70 %)
BE	150	3	83 946	5 876	89 822	62 876
DK	194	3	257 260	18 008	275 268	192 688
DE	220	3	392 831	27 498	420 329	294 230
EE	196	3	88 968	6 228	95 196	66 637
EL	200	3	146 770	10 274	157 044	109 931
ES	200	3	273 765	19 164	292 929	205 050
FR	396	3	707 096	49 497	756 593	529 615
IT	390	3	696 382	48 747	745 129	521 590
LV	193	3	196 762	13 773	210 535	147 375
LT	193	3	122 994	8 610	131 604	92 123
HU	196	3	132 034	9 242	141 276	98 893
PL	190	3	339 263	23 749	363 012	254 108
PT	145	3	37 410	2 619	40 029	28 020
SK	198	3	244 776	17 134	261 910	183 337
FI	160	3	285 695	19 999	305 694	213 986
SE	150	3	53 220	3 725	56 945	39 862
UK	200	3	357 119	24 998	382 117	267 482
Total			4 416 293	309 141	4 725 433	3 307 803

ANNEX II U.K. MODEL FOR A FINANCIAL REPORT ON VOLUNTARY SURVEILLANCE STUDIES ON HONEYBEE COLONY LOSSES

Total expenditure for the project (real costs, VAT excl.)
Member State:		Number of apiaries visited:

Laboratory costs
Staff category	Number of working days	Daily rate	Total
…
…
Consumables (description)	Quantity	Unit cost	Total
…
…

Sampling and monitoring costs (apiary visits)
Staff category	Number of working days	Daily rate	Total
…
…
Consumables (description)	Quantity	Unit cost	Total
…
…

Certification by the beneficiary U.K.

We certify that:

• the expenditure listed above was incurred in the performance of tasks described in the technical document ‘Basis for a pilot surveillance project on honey bee colony losses’(1) and directly related to the implementation of the surveillance study programme for which financial support was granted according to Commission Implementing Decision 2012/362/EU,

• the expenditure was actually incurred, accurately accounted for and eligible under the provisions of Implementing Decision 2012/362/EU,

• all supporting documents relating to the expenditure are available for auditing,

• no other Union contribution was requested for the projects listed in this Decision.

Date:

Name and signature of the financial officer responsible:

ANNEX III U.K. ELIGIBILITY RULES

1. Laboratory costs U.K.

• 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).

2. Sampling and monitoring costs U.K.

• Costs for sampling and monitoring can only be claimed it they are directly linked to visits of apiaries.

• Staff costs shall be limited to actual attributable labour costs (remuneration, wages, social charges and retirement costs) accrued in implementation of the study. 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 and shall only be reimbursed if used specifically during visits to the apiaries.

3. Overheads U.K.

A flat rate contribution of 7 % calculated on the basis of all direct eligible costs may be claimed.

4. The expenditure submitted by the Member States for a financial contribution by the Union shall be expressed in euro and shall exclude value added tax (VAT) and all other taxes. U.K.

(1)

Available at http://ec.europa.eu/food/animal/liveanimals/bees/bee_health_en.htm