2004/693/EC:Commission Decision of 8 October 2004 amending Decision 2004/233/EC as regards the list of laboratories authorised to check the effectiveness of vaccination against rabies in certain domestic carnivores (notified under document number C(2004) 3686)Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2004-10-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, domestic animal, product quality, rabies, research body, testing, vaccination

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 8 October 2004

amending Decision 2004/233/EC as regards the list of laboratories authorised to check the effec-
tiveness of vaccination against rabies in certain domestic carnivores

(notified under document number C(2004) 3686)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/693/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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

Whereas:

(1)

responsible

establishing

the
serological

for
standardising the
effectiveness of

Decision 2000/258/EC designated the laboratory of the
Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des aliments de
Nancy (the AFSSA laboratory, Nancy), France as the
criteria
institute
necessary for
to
monitor
rabies vaccines. That
the
Decision also provides for the AFSSA laboratory, Nancy
to send to the Commission the list of Community
laboratories to be authorised to carry out those sero-
logical tests. Accordingly, the AFSSA laboratory, Nancy
operates the established proficiency testing procedure to
appraise laboratories for authorisation to perform the
serological tests.

tests

(2)

Commission Decision 2004/233/EC of 4 March 2004
authorising laboratories to check the effectiveness of

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

in

against

vaccination
domestic
rabies
carnivores (2) established a list of approved laboratories
in the Member States on the grounds of the results of the
proficiency tests communicated by the AFSSA laboratory,
Nancy.

certain

laboratories,

respectively in the Netherlands,
Three
Poland and Portugal, have been approved by the
AFSSA laboratory, Nancy, in compliance with Decision
2000/258/EC.

Accordingly, it is appropriate to add those three labora-
tories to the list of approved laboratories in the Member
to Decision
States
2004/233/EC.

established in the Annex

as

In addition, following the request of Germany, certain
amendments should be made to the addresses of two
German laboratories.

Furthermore, following the request of Slovenia, the name
of the diagnostic laboratory in that Member State should
be amended.

Decision 2004/233/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(1) OJ L 79, 30.3.2000, p. 40. Decision as amended by Commission

Decision 2003/60/EC (OJ L 23, 28.1.2003, p. 30).

(2) OJ L 71, 10.3.2004, p. 30. Decision as amended by Decision
2004/448/EC (OJ L 155, 30.4.2004, p. 84, as corrected in OJ L
193, 1.6.2004, p. 64).

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annex I to Decision 2004/233/EC is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 8 October 2004.

For the Commission

David BYRNE
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

NAMES OF LABORATORIES

(AT) AUSTRIA

Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH
Veterinärmedizinische Untersuchungen Mödling
Robert-Koch-Gasse 17
A-2340 Mödling

(BE) BELGIUM

Institut Pasteur de Bruxelles
642, rue Engeland
B-1180 Bruxelles

(DE) GERMANY

1. Institut für Virologie, Fachbereich Veterinärmedizin

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Frankfurter Straße 107
D-35392 Gießen

2. Eurovir Hygiene-Institut
Im Biotechnologiepark
D-14943 Luckenwalde

3. Bayrisches Landesamt für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit

Dienststelle Oberschleißheim
Veterinärstraße 2
D-85764 Oberschleißheim

4. Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz Sachsen-Anhalt

Fachbereich 4
Veterinäruntersuchungen und -epidemiologie
Haferbreiter Weg 132-135
D-39576 Stendal

5. Staatliches Veterinäruntersuchungsamt

Zur Taubeneiche 10-12
D-59821 Arnsberg

6. Institut für epidemiologische Diagnostik

Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit
Standort Wusterhausen
Seestraße 155
D-16868 Wusterhausen

7. Landesuntersuchungsanstalt für das Gesundheits- und Veterinärwesen Sachsen

Zschopauer Straße 186
D-09126 Chemnitz

(DK) DENMARK

Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research
Lindholm
DK-4771 Kalvehave

(EL) GREECE

Centre of Athens Veterinary Institutions Virus Department
25, Neapoleos Str
GR-153 10 Ag. Paraskevi, Athens

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(ES) SPAIN

Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria de Santa Fe
Camino del Jau s/n
E-18320 Santa Fe (Granada)

(FI) FINLAND

National Veterinary and Food Research Institute
PL 45
FIN-00581 Helsinki

(FR) FRANCE

1. AFSSA Nancy

Domaine de Pixérécourt
B.P. 9
F-54220 Malzeville

2. Laboratoire vétérinaire départemental de la Haute-Garonne

78, rue Boudou
F-31140 Launaguet

3. Laboratoire départemental de la Sarthe

128, rue de Beaugé
F-72018 Le Mans Cedex 2

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

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

(IT) ITALY

1. Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie

Via Romea 14/A
I-35020 Legnaro (PD)

2. Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise

Via Campio Boario
I-64100 Teramo

3. Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana

Via Appia Nuova 1411
I-00178 Roma Capannelle

(NL) NETHERLANDS

Central Institute for Animal Disease Control (CIDC) Lelystad
P.O. Box 2004
8203 AA Lelystad
Nederland

(PL) POLAND

National Veterinary Research Institute
Al. Partyzantow 57
24-100 Pulawy
Poland

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(PT) PORTUGAL

Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária (LNIV)
Estrada de Benfica No 701
P-1500 Lisboa

(SE) SWEDEN

National Veterinary Institute
(Department of Virology)
S-751 89 Uppsala

(SI) SLOVENIA

National Veterinary Institute
Gerbiceva 60
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

(SK) SLOVAKIA

State Veterinary Institute
Pod drahami 918
960 86 Zvolen
Slovakia

(UK) UNITED KINGDOM

1. Veterinary Laboratories Agency

Virology Department
Woodham Lane,
New Haw
Addlestone
Surrey KT15 3NB
United Kingdom

2. Biobest

Pentlands Science Park
Bush Loan
Penicuik
Midlothian
EH26 0PZ
United Kingdom

Nota: Regularly updated details of contact persons, fax and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses concerning the above

laboratories can be found on
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/animal/liveanimals/pets/approval_en.htm.’