CELEX: 32019D1664
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1664 of 30 September 2019 authorising a laboratory in Ukraine to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines in dogs, cats and ferrets (notified under document C(2019) 6906) (Text with EEA relevance)

2.10.2019   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 252/38
               
            
         COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2019/1664
         of 30 September 2019
         authorising a laboratory in Ukraine to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines in dogs, cats and ferrets
         
            
               (notified under document C(2019) 6906)
            
         
         (Text with EEA relevance)
         THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
         Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
         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(2) thereof,
         Whereas:
         
                     (1)
                  
                  
                     Decision 2000/258/EC designates the Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des aliments (AFSSA) in Nancy, France, as the specific institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines. The AFSSA has now been integrated into the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (ANSES) in France.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Decision 2000/258/EC provides, inter alia, that the ANSES is to appraise laboratories in third countries that have applied for approval to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     The competent authority of Ukraine has submitted an application for the approval of the laboratory ‘NeoVetlab Ukraine Ltd’ in Kyiv, and the ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 14 September 2018 for this laboratory.
                  
               
                     (4)
                  
                  
                     The laboratory ‘NeoVetlab Ukraine Ltd’ in Kyiv should therefore be authorised to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines in dogs, cats and ferrets.
                  
               
                     (5)
                  
                  
                     The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            In accordance with Article 3(2) of Decision 2000/258/EC, the following laboratory is hereby authorised to perform serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines in dogs, cats and ferrets:
            
                        NeoVetlab Ukraine Ltd
                     
                  
                        11, Akademika Viliamsa str., apt.101
                     
                  
                        Kyiv, 03191
                     
                  
                        Ukraine
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            This Decision shall apply from 1 October 2019.
         
         
            Article 3
            This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
         
         
            Done at Brussels, 30 September 2019.
            
               
                  For the Commission
               
               Vytenis ANDRIUKAITIS
               
                  Member of the Commission
               
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 79, 30.3.2000, p. 40.