Press Release: Plant health : EU steps up assistance to help fight dangerous organisms

The European Union earmarked 19 million euros to co-finance programmes in seven Member States aiming to combat organisms harmful to plants and to prevent them from spreading further in the Union and thus from having severe consequences on the internal market.

During a meeting of the Standing Committee on Plant Health (SCPH), the Member States endorsed two Commission proposals providing the co-financing (€15 and €4 million respectively) of actions already undertaken in the past or planned to be executed in 2012.

European Commission: Memo/11/787: Questions and Answers on plant health pests and funding programmes to deal with them http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/787&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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