2005/656/EC: Commission Decision of 14 September 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) 3444)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-09-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, domestic animal, rabies, research body, vaccination

17.9.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 241/63

COMMISSION DECISION

of 14 September 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) 3444)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/656/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,

(4)

(5)

(6)

Accordingly, it is appropriate to add this laboratory to
the list of approved laboratories in the Member States as
established in the Annex to Decision 2004/233/EC.

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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(1)

(2)

(3)

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
rabies vaccines. That
monitor
the
the AFSSA Laboratory,
for
Decision also provides
Nancy
list of
to send to the Commission the
Community laboratories to be authorised to carry out
those
the AFSSA
Laboratory, 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 ground of the results of the
proficiency
the AFSSA
communicated
tests
Laboratory, Nancy.

certain

by

in

Article 1

In Annex I to Decision 2004/233/EC, the section for the Czech
Republic is replaced by the following:

‘1. State Veterinary Institute, National Reference Laboratory

(NRL) for Rabies
U Sila 1139
CZ-463 11 Liberec 30

2. State Veterinary Institute Prague

Sídlištní 136/24
CZ-165 03 Praha’.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 14 September 2005.

One laboratory in Czech Republic has been approved by
the AFSSA Laboratory, Nancy,
in compliance with
Decision 2000/258/EC.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

(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

2005/392/EC (OJ L 130, 24.5.2005, p. 17).