Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 11.12.2012 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 337/53 |

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION

of 7 December 2012

amending Part A of Annex XI to Council Directive 2003/85/EC as regards the list of national laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus

(notified under document C(2012) 8900)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2012/766/EU)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Directive 2003/85/EC of 29 September 2003 on Community measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease repealing Directive 85/511/EEC and Decisions 89/531/EEC and 91/665/EEC and amending Directive 92/46/EEC [(1)](#ntr1-L_2012337EN.01005301-E0001), and in particular Article 67(2) thereof,

Whereas:

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| (1) | Directive 2003/85/EC sets out minimum control measures to be applied in the event of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease and certain preventive measures aimed at increasing the awareness and preparedness of the competent authorities and the farming community concerning that disease. |

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| (2) | Those preventive measures include an obligation on Member States to ensure that the handling of live foot-and-mouth disease virus for research and diagnosis is carried out only in the authorised national laboratories listed in Part A of Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC. |

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| (3) | The United Kingdom has officially informed the Commission that the name of the national laboratory listed in Part A of Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC situated in that Member State has changed. |

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| (4) | For legal certainty, it is important to keep the list of national laboratories set out in Part A of Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC updated. It is therefore necessary to replace the entry for the United Kingdom in the list of national laboratories set out in Part A of that Annex. |

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| (5) | Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC should therefore be amended accordingly. |

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| (6) | The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, |

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In Part A of Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC, the entry for the United Kingdom is replaced by the following:

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| ‘UK | United Kingdom | The Pirbright Institute | United Kingdom  Estonia  Finland  Ireland  Latvia  Malta  Slovenia  Sweden’ |

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 7 December 2012.

For the Commission

Tonio BORG

Member of the Commission

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