This chapter discusses the Animal Disease Act in Germany, as updated on 11 April 2001, and the Animal Disease Fund. The act provides compensation for animals that are destroyed or have died from disease. Compensation is based on the market value of the animal. The act does not allow compensation...

The first part of this chapter presents a background on (i) the management of animal health in Australia; (ii) the country's animal health advantages; and (iii) the activities of Animal Health Australia, a not-for-profit company established to facilitate a national approach to enhancing Australia's ...

This chapter compares two ways of financing the programmes to combat foot and mouth disease in the EU and uses a simulation model to determine the welfare and production implications of the two systems. The two systems analysed are: (1) a purely tax-financed system, where all costs for preventive...