Aiming to control and eradicate these outbreaks, the government established emergency support policies. Following the initial relevant government decisions in 2004 and 2005, several decisions on compensation were approved.27 The rationale is to encourage farmers to declare disease outbreaks at an early stage so that it can be contained among the livestock population. A key component of the support policy is a compensation level that encourages farmers to cull animals rather than sell them illegally on the market.