Article 6
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 Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Addlestone, United Kingdom, for the monitoring of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies referred to in Chapter B of Annex X to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001. 2. The financial assistance is hereby set at a maximum of EUR 360000 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 52000.