Article 5
1. The Community hereby shall grant financial assistance to the United Kingdom for the functions and duties to be carried out by the laboratory of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth, United Kingdom, for the monitoring of bacteriological and viral contamination of bivalve molluscs referred to in Article 4 of Decision 1999/313/EC. 2. The financial assistance is hereby set at a maximum of EUR 140000 for the period 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2003. 3. The Community's financial assistance for organisation of a technical workshop shall amount to a maximum of EUR 26000.