The Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, has agreed on Monday in the Council of Ministers the distribution of 2,487,768 euros to Castilla-La Mancha for the financing of animal health programs.
The overall investment of the Executive amounts to 4,388,694 euros for all the autonomous communities, which have already received a total of 13,277,605 euros so far this year to combat animal diseases.
The measures to be financed include compensation for compulsory slaughter of animals that contracted diseases subject to eradication (tuberculosis, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or salmonella, mainly) and surveillance programmes for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. This allocation covers the uncovered portion of the applications for funding for compensation for slaughter submitted by the autonomous communities in a first allocation, and accounts for 20% of the total.
With the funds authorized by the Council of Ministers and approved at the Sectoral Conference of Agriculture and Rural Development, the cofinancing of 100% of the foci of avian influenza in Catalonia and of those of sheep pox in Castilla-La Mancha produced during the year 2023 is also carried out. Similarly, replacement aid for foci of sheep and goat pox is territorialized in Andalusia and Castilla-La Mancha.
The package of transfers authorized on Monday also includes the amount corresponding to the support for the acquisition of vaccines against bluetongue disease during the first year of a new epizootic wave, as agreed with the autonomous communities. This situation is limited to certain territories of Galicia and the Community of Madrid that joined the restriction zone for serotype 4 in 2023.