CELEX: 32004D0448
Language: en
Date: 2004-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision 2004/448/EC of 29 April 2004 amending Decision 2004/233/EC as regards the list of approved laboratories for checking the effectiveness of vaccination against rabies in certain domestic carnivores

L 155/80               EN                Official Journal of the European Union          30.4.2004
                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                           Of 29 April 2004
      amending Decision 2004/233/EC as regards the list of approved laboratories for
  checking the effectiveness of vaccination against rabies in certain domestic carnivores
                                    (Text with EEA relevance)
                                            (2004/448/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to the Treaty of accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia and in particular Article 2 (3)
thereof,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia , and in particular Article 57
thereof,
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 vaccines1, and in particular Article 3 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)      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, has designated the AFSSA Laboratory,
         Nancy, France as the institute responsible for the proficiency tests necessary to the
         approval of the laboratories willing to perform those tests.
(2)      Commission Decision 2004/233/EC authorising laboratories to check the effectiveness
         of vaccination against rabies in certain domestic carnivores2, has established a list of
         approved laboratories in the Member States on the ground of the results of the
         proficiency tests communicated by AFSSA Nancy.
(3)      Two laboratories, respectively in Slovakia and Slovenia, had been approved by
         AFSSA Laboratory , Nancy in compliance with the procedure applying to third
         countries as laid down in Decision 2000/258/EC.
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.
 ---pagebreak--- (4)    It is appropriate to add those two laboratories to the list of approved laboratories in
       theMember States as established in Annex to Decision 2004/233/EC.
(5)    In addition, following the request of Germany and on the basis of the favourable result
       of the proficiency test performed by AFSSA Nancy, a new laboratory is added to the
       list of approved laboratories for Germany.
(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
Annex I to Decision 2004/233/EC is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.
                                           Article 2
This Decision shall apply subject to and from the date of the entry into force of the Treaty of
Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia.
                                           Article 3
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 29 April 2004.
                                             For the Commission
                                             David BYRNE
                                             Member of the Commission
 ---pagebreak---                                             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 Lukenwalde
3.        Landesuntersuchungsamt für das Gesundheitswesen Südbayern
          Veterinärstraße 2
          D-85764 Oberschleißheim
4.        Landesveterinär-und Lebensmitteluntersuchungsamt Sachsen-Anhalt
          Außenstelle Stendal
          Haferbreiter Weg 132-135
          D-39576 Stendal
5.        Staatliches Veterinäruntersuchungsamt
          Zur Taubeneiche 10-12
          D-59821 Arnsberg
6.        Institut für epidemiologische Diagnostik
          Bundesforschungsanstalt für Viruskrankheiten der Tiere
          Seestraße 155
          D-16868 Wusterhausen
7.        Landesuntersuchungsanstalt für das Gesundheits-und Veterinärwesen Sachsen
          Zschopauer Str 186
          D-09126 Chemnitz
 ---pagebreak--- (DK) DENMARK
Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research
Lindholm
DK-4771 Kalvehave
(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
 ---pagebreak--- (GB) 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
(GR) GREECE
Centre of Athens Veterinary Institutions Virus Department
25, Neapoleos Str
GR-153 10 Ag. Paraskevi, Athens
(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
(SE) SWEDEN
National Veterinary Institute
(Department of Virology)
S-751 89 Uppsala
(SI) SLOVENIA
University of Ljubljana/Veterinary faculty
Gerbiceva 60
1000 Ljubljana.
 ---pagebreak--- (SK) SLOVAKIA
State Veterinary Institute
Pod drahani 918
960 86 Zvolen