2002/341/EC: Commission Decision of 3 May 2002 amending Decision 2001/296/EC as regards the list of approved laboratories for checking the effectiveness of vaccination against rabies in certain domestic carnivores (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2002) 1584)
Date: 2002-05-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, domestic animal, product quality, rabies, research body, testing, vaccine

4.5.2002

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 3 May 2002

amending Decision 2001/296/EC as regards the list of approved laboratories for checking the
effectiveness of vaccination against rabies in certain domestic carnivores

(notified under document number C(2002) 1584)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2002/341/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Decision 2000/258/EC of 20 March
2000 designating a specific institute responsible for estab-
lishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological
tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines (1), and in
particular Article 3 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Council Directive 92/65/EEC of 13 July 1992 laying
down animal health requirements governing trade in
and imports into the Community of animals, semen, ova
and embryos not subject to animal health requirements
laid down in specific Community rules referred to in
Annex A(I) to Directive 90/425/EEC (2), as last amended
by Commission Decision 2001/298/EC (3), provides for
an alternative system to quarantine for the entry of
certain domestic carnivores into the territory of certain
Member States free from rabies. That system requires
checks performed by officially approved laboratories on
the effectiveness of the vaccination by titration of anti-
bodies.

Pursuant to Decision 2000/258/EC the AFSSA Labora-
tory, Nancy, France, was designated as the institute
responsible for the proficiency tests necessary to the
approval of the laboratories willing to perform these
checks.

Commission Decision 2001/296/EC of 29 March 2001
authorising laboratories to check the effectiveness of
vaccination against rabies in certain domestic carni-

vores (4), as amended by Decision 2001/808/EC (5),
established a list of approved laboratories in the Member
States.

(4)

(5)

Following the request of Germany, France and Italy, and
on the basis of the favourable result of the proficiency
test performed by the AFSSA Laboratory, Nancy, it is
appropriate to add new laboratories to the list for those
three Member States.

The measures provided for in this Decision are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee
on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 2001/296/EC is amended as set out in
the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 3 May 2002.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 79, 30.3.2000, p. 40.
(2) OJ L 268, 14.9.1992, p. 54.
(3) OJ L 102, 12.4.2001, p. 63.

(4) OJ L 102, 12.4.2001, p. 58.
(5) OJ L 305, 22.11.2001, p. 30.

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ANNEX

The Annex to Decision 2001/296/EC is amended as follows:

1.

In the list concerning Germany the following points are added:

‘4. Landesveterinär und Lebensmitteluntersuchungsamt Sachsen-Anhalt

Außenstelle Stendal
Haferbreiter Weg 132-135
D-39576 Stendal.

5. Staatliches Veterinäruntersuchungsamt

Zur Taubeneiche 10-12
D-59821 Arnsberg.

6. Institut für epidemiologische Diagnostik

Bundesforschungsanstalt für Viruskrankheiten der Tiere
Seestraße 155
D-16868 Wusterhausen.’

2.

In the list concerning France the following point is added:

‘4. Laboratoire départemental d'analyses du Pas-de-Calais

Parc des Bonnettes
2, rue du Genévrier
F-62022 Arras Cedex.’

3.

In the list concerning Italy the following point is added:

‘3. Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana

Via Appia Nuova 1411
I-00178 Roma Capannelle.’