Study of cost-sharing of disease prevention and eradication in Ukraine
Country: Ukraine
The study was carried out for the EBRD (the European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development), through desk study, workshop and stakeholder interviews.
The purpose of this project was to evaluate if a cost-sharing system for
controlling animal disease outbreaks would be feasible for Ukraine.
Ukraine experiences recurrent outbreaks of African Swine Fever with severe damage for the
Ukraine pig sector. Historically, state authorities in EU Member States bore the direct expenses of
disease eradication and control measures, such as after foot-and-mouth disease and classical swine
fever outbreaks. However, political pressure rose to share costs between government and the
livestock sector because multiple outbreaks occurred in several countries, and because outbreaks
led to excessive costs. This has led to a cost sharing policy, resulting in public-private funding of
disease prevention/eradication.
Control of infectious diseases creates a significant socio-economic burden for competent
authorities, business operators and farmers for management of infectious disease outbreaks. The
non-vaccination policy in the EU, and international trade regulations in general, require high
sanitary status of animals and animal products. As a consequence, eradication and control
measures require costly interventions: such as culling of infected herds, pre-emptive culling to
reduce the spread of disease (and often extra costs for testing long after the last case was
identified, to demonstrate absence of disease) according to international (EU, OIE) standards.
Cost-sharing between government and livestock sector defines responsibilities in disease
prevention and control for both entities, and contributes to a better acceptance by the general
public.
The report summarises cost sharing systems for animal diseases in the Netherlands and other EU
countries and defines requirements of public-private schemes for diseases monitoring, prevention
and eradication. It also decribes the current situation in Ukraine regarding animal disease control,
and provides recommendations for implementation of public-private funding (PPF) of disease
prevention and eradication in Ukraine.