Article 25

Grants may be awarded to Member States for programmes that they carry out for the control of pests in the outermost regions of the Union referred to in Article 349 TFEU in line with the objectives set out in Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 (‘programmes for the outermost regions’). Those grants shall concern activities necessary to ensure the correct implementation in those regions of the rules, whether they are Union rules or national rules, in force in those regions, on the control of pests. The following costs incurred by Member States for programmes for the outermost regions may qualify for a Union financial contribution: costs of personnel, regardless of their status, directly involved in the implementation of the measures, as well as the costs of renting equipment, of consumables and of treatment products; costs of service contracts with third parties to execute part of the measures; costs of sampling; costs of tests, provided that they are limited to: the costs of test kits, of reagents and of consumables which are identifiable and specifically used for carrying out the tests; the costs of personnel, regardless of their status, directly involved in carrying out the tests.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.