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5.7.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
176/51
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION
of 4 July 2011
authorising a laboratory in Japan to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies
vaccines
(notified under document C(2011) 4595)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2011/396/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(5) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Decision
are
in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
Union,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
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
Article 1
monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines ( 1 ), and in particular
In accordance with Article 3(2) of Decision 2000/258/EC, the
Article 3(2) thereof,
following laboratory is authorised to perform the serological
tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines in dogs,
Whereas:
cats and ferrets:
(1) Decision
2000/258/EC
designates
the Agence nationale de
sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du
Laboratory Department, Animal Quarantine Service
travail (ANSES) in Nancy, France (previously known as
Ministry of Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
the Agence franaise de sécurité sanitaire des aliments,
11-1, Haramachi, Isogo-ku
AFSSA), as the specific institute responsible for estab
Yokohama
lishing the criteria necessary for standardising the sero
Kanagawa 235-0008
logical tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies
JAPAN
vaccines.
Article 2
(2) That Decision also provides that the ANSES is to
document the appraisal of laboratories in third
This Decision shall apply from 1 August 2011.
countries that have applied to carry out serological
tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines.
Article 3
(3) The
competent
authority
of
Japan
has
submitted
an This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
application for approval of a laboratory in that third
country to perform such serological tests. That appli
cation is supported by a favourable report by the
Done at Brussels, 4 July 2011.
ANSES dated 4 February 2011 of the appraisal of that
laboratory.
For the Commission
(4) That
laboratory
should
therefore
be
authorised
to
carry
out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies
John DALLI
vaccines in dogs, cats and ferrets.
Member of the Commission
( 1 ) OJ L 79, 30.3.2000, p. 40.

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