2006/48/EC: Commission Decision of  27 January 2006  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(2006) 122)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-01-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, domestic animal, product quality, rabies, research body, testing, vaccination

L 26/20

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

31.1.2006

COMMISSION DECISION

of 27 January 2006

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(2006) 122)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/48/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)

(7)

Whereas:

An additional laboratory in Germany has been authorised
by the AFSSA Laboratory, Nancy,
in compliance with
Decision 2000/258/EC.

That laboratory should accordingly be added to the list of
authorised laboratories in the Member States set out 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

(1)

(2)

(3)

Decision 2000/258/EC designates the laboratory of the
Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des aliments de
Nancy (the AFSSA Laboratory, Nancy), France, as the
specific institute responsible for establishing the criteria
necessary for
to
monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines.

standardising the

serological

tests

the AFSSA
Decision 2000/258/EC also provides that
Laboratory, Nancy,
is to send the Commission the list
of Community laboratories to be authorised to carry out
those
the AFSSA
Laboratory, Nancy, performs the established proficiency
testing procedure for appraising laboratories prior to
authorisation to perform the serological tests.

tests. Accordingly,

serological

against

Commission Decision 2004/233/EC of 4 March 2004
authorising laboratories to check the effectiveness of
vaccination
domestic
rabies
carnivores (2), establishes a list of authorised laboratories
in the Member States on the ground of the results of the
proficiency
the AFSSA
communicated
tests
Laboratory, Nancy.

certain

by

in

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In Annex I
to Decision 2004/233/EC,
Germany, the following point 8 is added:

in the section on

‘8. Vet Med Labor GmbH

Mörikestr. 28/3
D-71636 Ludwigsburg’.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 January 2006.

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

2005/656/EC (OJ L 241, 17.9.2005, p. 63).