(a)

to bodies identified by the basic act, within the meaning of Article 58 of the FR, as beneficiaries or to bodies designated by Member States, under their responsibility, where those Member States are identified by a basic act as beneficiaries

(b)

to bodies with a de jure or de facto monopoly or to bodies designated by Member States, under their responsibility, where those Member States are in a de jure or de facto monopoly situation

(c)

for activities with specific characteristics that require a particular type of body on account of its technical competence, its high degree of specialisation or its administrative powers, on condition that the activities concerned do not fall within the scope of a call for proposals.

(a)

Article 6 of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 provides that grants may be awarded to Member States up to the maximum rates set in Article 5(1) to (3) of that Regulation in respect of the measures taken as a result of the confirmation that one of the animal diseases listed pursuant to Article 7 of that Regulation has occurred, provided that the measures have been applied immediately and the applicable provisions laid down in the relevant Union law have been complied with. Grants may also be awarded to Member States, third countries or international organisations in respect of protection measures taken in the case of a direct threat to the health status of the Union as a result of the occurrence or development, in the territory of a third country or a Member State, of one of the animal diseases and zoonoses listed pursuant to Articles 7 or 10 of that Regulation.

(b)

Article 16 of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 provides that grants may be awarded to Member States or international organisations up to the maximum rates set in Article 5(1) to (3) of that Regulation for measures to eradicate, contain and protect against the spread of a plant pest, subject to the conditions laid down in Article 17 of that Regulation.

(c)

Article 3(2) of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 lays down that when grants are awarded to the competent authorities of the Member States, these competent authorities shall be considered to be identified beneficiaries within the meaning of Article 195(c) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046. Such grants may be awarded without a call for proposals.

(d)

In accordance with Article 6(5) of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 the Commission may award a Union financial contribution for the establishment of stocks of biological products or the acquisition of vaccine doses if the occurrence or the development in a third country or Member State of one of the animal diseases and zoonoses listed in Annex I and II of of that Regulation might constitute a threat to the Union.

(a)

costs of compensation, to owners for the value of their animals slaughtered or culled;

(b)

costs of slaughtering or culling the animals and related transport costs;

(c)

costs of compensation to owners for the value of their destroyed products of animal origin, limited to the market value of those products immediately before any suspicion of the disease arose or was confirmed;

(d)

costs of cleaning, desinsectisation and disinfection of holdings and equipment, based on the epidemiology and characteristics of the pathogen;

(e)

costs for the transport and the destruction of the contaminated feeding stuffs and, where it cannot be disinfected, contaminated equipment;

(f)

costs of purchase, storage, administration or distribution of vaccines and baits as well as costs of inoculation itself, if the Commission decides or authorises such actions;

(g)

costs of transport and disposal of carcasses;

(h)

in exceptional and duly justified cases:

(a)

costs of personnel, regardless of their status, directly involved in the measures, as well as costs of renting equipment, of consumables and of any other necessary materials, of treatment products, of sampling and of laboratory tests;

(b)

costs of service contracts with third parties to execute part of the measures;

(c)

costs of compensating the operators or owners concerned for the treatment, the destruction and subsequent removal of plants, of plant products and of other objects, and for the cleaning and disinfection of premises, land, water, soil, growing media, facilities, machinery and equipment;

(d)

as of 1 January 2017, costs of compensating the owners concerned for the value of the destroyed plants, plant products or other objects subject to the measures referred to in Article 16 of Directive 2000/29/EC, limited to the market value of such plants, plant products and other objects as if they had not been affected by those measures; the salvage value, if any, shall be deducted from the compensation;

(e)

in exceptional and duly justified cases:

(a)

compliance with the requirements of the relevant Union law;

(b)

relevance of the planned activities in view of the prevention or eradication of the animal diseases and plant pests.