2005/392/EC: Commission Decision of 17 May 2005 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(2005) 1439)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-05-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, domestic animal, product quality, rabies, research body, testing, vaccine

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 17 May 2005

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(2005) 1439)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/392/EC)

Five laboratories,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
approved by the AFSSA Laboratory of Nancy,
compliance with Decision 2000/258/EC.

respectively in the Czech Republic,
and Hungary had been
in

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

established in the Annex

as

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

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

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 17 May 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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:

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(1)

(2)

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
to
necessary for
monitor
rabies vaccines. That
the
Decision also provides for the AFSSA Laboratory of
Nancy
list of
to send to the Commission the
Community laboratories to be authorised to carry out
those
the AFSSA
Laboratory of Nancy operates the established proficiency
testing procedure to appraise laboratories for authori-
sation to perform the serological tests.

tests. Accordingly,

serological

tests

against

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

certain

in

(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 last amended by Decision

2004/693/EC (OJ L 315, 14.10.2004, p. 47).

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

NAMES OF LABORATORIES

(BE) Belgium

Institut Pasteur de Bruxelles
Rue Engeland/Engelandstraat 642
B-1180 Brussels

(CZ) Czech Republik

State Veterinary Institute, National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Rabies
U Sila 1139
CZ-463 11 Liberec 30

(DK) Denmark

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

(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
Standort Wusterhausen
Seestraße 155
D-16868 Wusterhausen

7. Landesuntersuchungsanstalt für das Gesundheits- und Veterinärwesen Sachsen

Zschopauer Straße 186
D-09126 Chemnitz

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(EE) Estonia

Estonian Veterinary and Food Laboratory
Kreutzwaldi 30
EE-51 006 Tartu

(EL) Greece

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

(ES) Spain

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

(FR) France

1. AFSSA Nancy

Domaine de Pixérécourt
BP 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 Campo Boario
I-64100 Teramo

3. Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana

Via Appia Nuova 1411
I-00178 Roma

(LV) Latvia

State Veterinary Medicine Diagnostic Centre
Food and Veterinary Service
Lejupes iela 3,
LV-1076 Riga

(LT) Lithuania

National Veterinary Laboratori/Nacionaline Veterinarijos laboratorija
J. Kairiukscio 10
LT-08409 Vilnius

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(HU) Hungary

Central veterinary Institute
Virological Department
Tabornok utca 2
H-1149 Budapest

(NL) Netherlands

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

(AT) Austria

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

(PL) Poland

National Veterinary Research Institute
al. Partyzantow 57
PL-24-100 Pulawy

(PT) Portugal

Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária (LNIV)
Estrada de Benfica 701
P-1500 Lisboa

(SI) Slovenia

National Veterinary Institute
Gerbičeva 60
SLO-1000 Ljubljana

(SK) Slovakia

State Veterinary Institute
Pod drahami 918
SK-960 86 Zvolen

(FI) Finland

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

(SE) Sweden

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

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(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

Note: Regularly updated details of contacts persons, faxes and telephone number, e-mail addresses concerning the above

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