ITEM 9 - FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT

skills for application to risk based control measures; this weakness was not seen in Australian trainees. The Courses had proven that risk factors for cases can be identified in surveillance visits in the field, and through paper based or Smartphone methods, risks and management rapidly identified. A common theme of several requests has been to train European staff and those in high risk countries in risk based surveillance.

The development of training in this area in addition to FMD recognition could help build FMD expertise relevant to local and national disease control centres.

The Chairman and EC representatives congratulated the EuFMD team on the continued development of the training programme and considered that in addition to the Real-Time FMD training; development of a more comprehensive training programme should proceed and be presented at the 40th Session in April. The recruitment (with Australian funds) of a surveillance expert for training could assist in this.

Conclusions

1. The Real-Time training programme continued to provide very valuable experience for the

Member States and should be continued in the programme of actions in the next four year activity plan; 2. Ahead of the 40th Session the secretariat should develop a more comprehensive framework for training for consideration that would provide options for Community Veterinary Experts and other levels of emergency management staff to deepen skills and knowledge relevant to FMD local and national emergency responses. Retention of knowledge and skills acquired at Real-

Time Courses should also be addressed; 3. The EuFMD expertise in the PCP and in particular the practical epidemiology courses, might be very relevant to other regions and should be discussed with FAO/OIE, the World Bank and others as to provision of joint courses on a cost-recovery basis, with places funded by FAO or other projects.

Item 9 - Financial and Administrative report

The Secretary presented the financial situation for the three Trust Funds managed for the Commission activities.

The Statements for MTF/INT/011/MUL, to which the Member States contributions are pooled for the administration of the Commission is given in Appendix 14. The contributions received to the end of August were over USD$ 392,000 with arrears of USD266, 802 of which the majority were late payments for 2012 but several (Albania, FYROM, Bulgaria and Serbia) included arrears from 2011 and in some cases earlier years. In the case of Serbia, Dr Plavsic had provided written indications of the actions taken to address the arrears and was confident that payments would be made in 2012 which would involve payment in full or a proposed schedule over the coming year. His efforts were appreciated and he was thanked by the Chairman.

The MTF/INT/004/MUL had received the income of USD$ 250,927 being the Australian contribution to support the cost of the training programme. This TF would be used to manage this contribution.