2003/11/EC: Commission Decision of 10 January 2003 amending Council Directive 85/511/EEC as regards the lists of laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2002) 5559)
Date: 2003-01-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: epidemic, foot-and-mouth disease, research body, veterinary inspection, veterinary legislation

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Official Journal of the European Communities

11.1.2003

COMMISSION DECISION

of 10 January 2003

amending Council Directive 85/511/EEC as regards the lists of laboratories authorised to handle
live foot-and-mouth disease virus

(notified under document number C(2002) 5559)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2003/11/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 85/511/EEC of 18
November 1985 introducing Community measures for the
control of foot-and-mouth disease (1), as last amended by the
Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in parti-
cular the second subparagraph of Article 13(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The cessation of routine vaccination against foot-and-
mouth disease virus in the Community in 1991 has
increased the susceptibility of Community herds to this
disease. It is therefore essential to ensure that labora-
tories which handle the virus do so under secure condi-
tions, to avoid the dissemination of the virus which
might endanger the Community herds.

Directive 85/511/EEC lists the national and commercial
laboratories authorised to handle the live foot-and-
mouth disease virus. That Directive requires
those
laboratories to comply with the minimum standards
recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) of the United Nations.

Certain Member States have decided to discontinue the
handling of the foot-and-mouth disease virus in certain
laboratories, while other Member States have provided
the necessary guarantees that the required standards are
complied with by laboratories which they have approved

for that purpose.
listed
laboratories
changed.

In addition,

the details of certain
in Directive 85/511/EEC have

It is therefore necessary to update the lists of laboratories
as set out in Annexes A and B to Directive 85/511/EEC.

Directive 85/511/EEC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

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

(4)

(5)

(6)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annexes A and B to Council Directive 85/511/EEC are replaced
by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 10 January 2003.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 315, 26.11.1985, p. 11.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX A

Commercial laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus for vaccine production

GERMANY

FRANCE

Bayer AG, Köln

Merial, SAS, Laboratoire IFFA, Lyon

NETHERLANDS

CIDC-Lelystad, Central Institute for Animal Disease Control, Lelystad

UNITED KINGDOM

Merial, SAS, Pirbright Laboratory, Pirbright

ANNEX B

National laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus

BELGIUM

DENMARK

GERMANY

GREECE

SPAIN

FRANCE

Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre
CODA-CERVA-VAR, Uccle

Danish Veterinary Institute, Department of Virology, Lindholm

Bundesforschungsanstalt für Viruskrankheiten der Tiere

— Anstaltsteil Tübingen
— Anstaltsteil Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Insel Riems

Ινστιτούτο Αφθώδους Πυρετού
Αγία Παρασκευή Αττικής

Laboratorio Central de Sanidad Animal INIA (CSIA-INIA), Valdeolmos, Madrid

Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des aliments (AFSSA)

— Laboratoire d'études et de recherches en pathologie bovine et hygiène des viandes,

Lyon

— Laboratoire d'études et de recherches en pathologie animale et zoonoses, Maison-

Alfort

ITALY

Istituto zooprofilattico sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna, Brescia

NETHERLANDS

CIDC-Lelystad, Central Institute for Animal Disease Control, Lelystad

AUSTRIA

Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit
Veterinärmedizinische Untersuchungen Mödling

UNITED KINGDOM

Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright’