EU's grant for animal disease

A multi-million pound plan to eradicate the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) such as mad cow disease and other animal diseases next year across the 15 nation European Union has been planned. Scrapie, brucellosis, tuberculosis, rabies and salmonellosis will be the main targets in the EU's 2002 disease eradication program. The European Union (EU) budget will contribute €114 million for financing the test kits to monitor scrapie and mad cow disease. In 2002, between seven and eight million animals will be tested for BSE. The EU will contribute €40.45 million for the eradication and monitoring of 13 major animal diseases in the EU Member States.