1.The following costs incurred by the Member States in carrying out the measures referred to in Article 6(1) may qualify for funding under that paragraph:
costs of compensation to owners for the value of their animals slaughtered or culled, limited to the market value of such animals if they had not been affected by the disease;
costs of slaughtering or culling the animals and related transport costs;
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;
costs of cleaning, desinsectisation and disinfection of holdings and equipment, based on the epidemiology and characteristics of the pathogen;
costs for the transport and the destruction of the contaminated feeding stuffs and, where it can not be disinfected, contaminated equipment;
costs of purchase, storage, administration or distribution of vaccines and baits as well as the costs of inoculation itself, if the Commission decides or authorises such actions;
costs of transport and disposal of carcasses;
in exceptional and duly justified cases, any other costs essential for the eradication of the disease, as provided for in the financing decision referred to in Article 36(4) of this Regulation.
2.As referred to in Article 130(1) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012, costs shall be eligible from the date of notification of the occurrence of the disease by the Member States to the Commission. Such costs may also include costs incurred as a result of a suspected occurrence of such a disease, provided that that occurrence is subsequently confirmed.
3.After assessment of the payment applications submitted by the Member States, the Commission shall make the corresponding budgetary commitments and shall pay the eligible expenditure.