CELEX: 32008D0339
Language: en
Date: 2008-04-25 00:00:00
Title: 2008/339/EC: Commission Decision of 25 April 2008 amending Annex XI to Council Directive 2003/85/EC as regards the list of laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus (notified under document number C(2008) 1577) (Text with EEA relevance)

29.4.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 115/39
            
         
      COMMISSION DECISION
   
   of 25 April 2008
   amending Annex XI to Council Directive 2003/85/EC as regards the list of laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus
   (notified under document number C(2008) 1577)
   (Text with EEA relevance)
   (2008/339/EC)
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
   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), and in particular Article 67(2) thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (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.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               The preventive measures set out in Directive 2003/85/EC include the provision that Member States are to ensure that the handling of live foot-and-mouth disease virus for research, diagnosis or manufacture is carried out only in approved laboratories listed in Annex XI to that Directive.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Part A of Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC lists national laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus for research and diagnostic purposes.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               Denmark has officially informed the Commission of changes relating to the administration of its national reference laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease.
            
         
               (5)
            
            
               Latvia and Slovenia have officially informed the Commission that their respective national reference laboratories are no longer considered to meet the security standards laid down in Article 65(d) and should therefore bee deleted from the list in Part A of Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC.
            
         
               (6)
            
            
               The Netherlands have officially informed the Commission of changes relating to the name of their national reference laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease.
            
         
               (7)
            
            
               For security reasons it is important to keep the list of laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus in Directive 2003/85/EC updated.
            
         
               (8)
            
            
               Accordingly, it is necessary to replace the list of laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus in Part A of Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC by the list set out in the Annex to this Decision.
            
         
               (9)
            
            
               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 Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC, Part A is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.
   Article 2
   The Decision is addressed to the Member States.
   
      Done at Brussels, 25 April 2008.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         Androulla VASSILIOU
         
         
            Member of the Commission
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 306, 22.11.2003, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 2006/104/EC (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 352).
   
      ANNEX
      
         ‘PART A
         National laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus
         
                     Member State where laboratory is located
                  
                  
                     Laboratory
                  
                  
                     Member States using the services of laboratory
                  
               
                     ISO code
                  
                  
                     Name
                  
               
                     AT
                  
                  
                     Austria
                  
                  
                     Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit
                     Veterinärmedizinische Untersuchungen Mödling
                  
                  
                     Austria
                  
               
                     BE
                  
                  
                     Belgium
                  
                  
                     Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre CODA-CERVA-VAR Uccle
                  
                  
                     Belgium
                     Luxembourg
                  
               
                     BG
                  
                  
                     Bulgaria
                  
                  
                     Национален диагностичен научноизследователски ветеринарно-медицински институт Проф. д-р Георги Павлов, Национална референтна лаборатория Шап и везикулозна болест по свинете
                     (National Diagnostic Veterinary Research Institute Prof. Dr. Georgi Pavlov, National Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Swine Vesicular Diseases)
                  
                  
                     Bulgaria
                  
               
                     CZ
                  
                  
                     Czech Republic
                  
                  
                     Statní veterinární ústav Praha, Praha
                  
                  
                     Czech Republic
                  
               
                     DE
                  
                  
                     Germany
                  
                  
                     Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
                     Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit,
                     Greifswald - Insel Riems
                  
                  
                     Germany
                     Slovakia
                  
               
                     DK
                  
                  
                     Denmark
                  
                  
                     Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Veterinærinstituttet
                     Afdeling for Virologi, Lindholm
                     Danish Technical University, Veterinary Institute,
                     Department of Virology, Lindholm
                  
                  
                     Denmark
                     Finland
                     Sweden
                  
               
                     EL
                  
                  
                     Greece
                  
                  
                     Ινστιτούτο αφθώδους πυρετού,
                     Αγία Παρασκευή Αττικής
                  
                  
                     Greece
                  
               
                     ES
                  
                  
                     Spain
                  
                  
                     Laboratorio Central de Sanidad Animal, Madrid
                  
                  
                     Spain
                  
               
                     FR
                  
                  
                     France
                  
                  
                     Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des aliments (AFSSA)
                     
                                 —
                              
                              
                                 Laboratoire d’études et de recherches en pathologie bovine et hygiène des viandes, Lyon
                              
                           
                                 —
                              
                              
                                 Laboratoire d’études et de recherches en pathologie animale et zoonoses, Maisons-Alfort
                              
                           
                  
                     France
                  
               
                     HU
                  
                  
                     Hungary
                  
                  
                     Országos Állategészségügyi Intézet (OÁI), Budapest
                  
                  
                     Hungary
                  
               
                     IT
                  
                  
                     Italy
                  
                  
                     Istituto zooprofilattico sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia-Romagna, Brescia
                  
                  
                     Italy
                     Cyprus
                  
               
                     LT
                  
                  
                     Lithuania
                  
                  
                     Nacionalinė veterinarijos laboratorija, Vilnius
                  
                  
                     Lithuania
                  
               
                     NL
                  
                  
                     Netherlands
                  
                  
                     Central Veterinary Institute of Wageningen UR, Lelystad
                  
                  
                     Netherlands
                  
               
                     PL
                  
                  
                     Poland
                  
                  
                     Zakład Pryszczycy Państwowego
                     Instytutu Weterynaryjnego – Państwowego
                     Instytutu Badawczego, Zduńska Wola
                  
                  
                     Poland
                  
               
                     RO
                  
                  
                     Romania
                  
                  
                     Institutul de Diagnostic și Sănătate Animală, București
                  
                  
                     Romania
                  
               
                     UK
                  
                  
                     United Kingdom
                  
                  
                     Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright
                  
                  
                     United Kingdom
                     Estonia
                     Finland
                     Ireland
                     Latvia
                     Malta
                     Slovenia
                     Sweden’