CELEX: 31972D0446
Language: en
Date: 1972-12-28 00:00:00
Title: 72/446/EEC: Council Decision of 28 December 1972 adopting a Community research programme into classical and African swine fever

78                          Official Journal of the European Communities
No L 298/50                 Official Journal of the European Communities                         31.12.72
                                        COUNCIL DECISION
                                          of 28 December 1972
            adopting a Community research programme into classical and African swine
                                                   fever
                                              (72/446/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­                     HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
TIES ,
                                                                             Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in partic­              A Community research programme into classical
ular Article 43 thereof;
                                                         and African swine fever is hereby adopted and
Having regard to the proposal from the Com­              shall be governed by the conditions and detailed
                                                         rules laid down in the Annex.
mission;
Having regard to the Opinion of the European
                                                                             Article 2
Parliament;
Whereas pursuant to Article 41 of the Treaty,            The Commission shall be responsible for the
provision may be made in particular for the              implementation of the research programme.
effective coordination of agricultural research
schemes so that the objectives of the common             It shall, before 30 June each year, submit a
agricultural policy may be attained;                     report on the work carried out during the
                                                         preceding year.
Whereas research into the virology of swine              On conclusion of the research work carried out
fever is a basic requirement of technical progress       under the programme it shall submit a com­
in pig rearing, and is essential to safeguard and        prehensive report on the results thereof.
increase productivity in pig rearing;
Whereas, to ensure that work in this field is            Done at Brussels , 28 December 1972 .
properly coordinated, provision must be made                                       For the Council
for a plan of action designed to stimulate the                                       The President
necessary initiatives and to increase the ef­
ficiency of such work;                                                              T. WESTERTERP
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                                               ANNEX
In liaise n with the scientific authorities of the Member States and with the approval of the
Directois-General for agricultural research , a Community research programme into classical
and African swine fever, of a duration of four years, is hereby established.
                                         DESCRIPTION OF WORK
A. Classical swine fever:
       I. Virology:       — The study of the properties of the classic swine fever viruses and its
                               applications to diagnosis.
      II. Pathogenesis:   — Study of live vaccines linked with differential diagnosis .
     III. Immunology:     — Immunising response mechanisms of the pig towards the classic
                               swine fever virus.
B. African swine fever:
       I. Virology:       — Antigenic structure of the virus, characterisation of African virus
                               strains .
      II. Pathogenesis:   — Study of the subclinical or chronic forms of the disease linked with
                               current problems of diagnosis in the case of acute or chronic evolu­
                               tive forms .
     III. Immunology:      — Study of the behaviour of the modified virus during the course of
                               experimental immunisation and study of the mechanisms inhibiting
                               multiplication of the virus (in vitro-in vivo).
                           — Study of the various fractions of the virus particle and location
                               of the neutralising force by means of immune-serums prepared
                               from these various fractions on which the techniques of haem­
                               absorption, precipitation, fixing of the complement and of the
                               fluorescent antibodies, are to be applied.
Furthermore, to permit:
 1 . the necessary scientific contacts to be made with laboratories specialising in the field of
     African swine fever,
2 . the manipulation and study of virulent African swine fever viruses to be carried out without
     infringing health legislation where this expressly forbids such practices in countries free of
     the disease,
liaison with laboratories established in places infected with African swine fever is quite
 obviously essential. Since this arrangement has already shown itself to have considerable advan­
tages in carrying out work under the preceding programme it has been not only repeated but
 also improved, in that provision has been made for close interdependence between the work
 of the Community laboratories and Madrid and Lisbon laboratories.
 Overall research work covered by this programme shall be coordinated under the authority of
the Commission with the assistance of a scientific adviser appointed for the purpose.
PARTICIPANTS :
 The institutes or laboratories taking part in th« Community programme are as follows:
 Federal Republic of Germany:
 — Institut für Virologie der Tierartzlichen Hochschule, Hannover.
 — Bunc esforschungsanstalt fiir Viruskrankheiten der Tiere, Tiibingen.
 Belgium
 — Institut national de recherches vétérinaires , Uccle - Bruxelles.
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   France :
   — Laboratoire central de recherches vétérinaires , Maisons-Alfort.
   — Station de recherches de virologie et d'immunologie, Institut national de la recherche
       agronomique, Thiverval-Grignon.
   Italy:
   — Istituto zooprofilattico sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia, Brescia.
   — Istituto zooprofilattico sperimentale . dell'Abruzzo , Teramo .
   — Istituto zooprofilattico sperimentale dell'Umbria e delle Marche, Perugia.
   Netherlands:
   — Centraal Diergeneeskundig Instituut, Afdeling Noord Lelystad (Flevopolder).
   — Instituut voor Virologie — Faculteit der Diergeneeskunde, Utrecht.
   Associated laboratories:
   — Institute of Animal Biology , Madrid.
   — National Veterinary Research Laboratory, Lisbon .