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11.12.2012 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
337/53
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION
of 7 December 2012
amending Part A of Annex XI to Council Directive 2003/85/EC as regards the list of national
laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus
(notified under document C(2012) 8900)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2012/766/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(5) Annex
XI
to
Directive
2003/85/EC
should
therefore
be
amended accordingly.
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union,
(6) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Decision
are
in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
Having regard to Council Directive 2003/85/EC of
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
29 September 2003 on Community measures for the control
of foot-and-mouth disease repealing Directive 85/511/EEC and
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Decisions 89/531/EEC and 91/665/EEC and amending Directive
92/46/EEC ( 1 ), and in particular Article 67(2) thereof,
Article 1
Whereas:
In Part A of Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC, the entry for
the United Kingdom is replaced by the following:
(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
‘UK United
Kingdom The
Pirbright
Institute United Kingdom
aimed at increasing the awareness and preparedness of
Estonia
the competent authorities and the farming community
Finland
concerning that disease.
Ireland
Latvia
(2) Those
preventive
measures
include
an
obligation
on
Malta
Member States to ensure that the handling of live foot-
Slovenia
and-mouth disease virus for research and diagnosis is
Sweden’
carried out only in the authorised national laboratories
listed in Part A of Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC.
Article 2
(3) The
United
Kingdom
has
officially
informed
the This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Commission that the name of the national laboratory
listed in Part A of Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC
situated in that Member State has changed.
Done at Brussels, 7 December 2012.
(4)
For legal certainty, it is important to keep the list of
national laboratories set out in Part A of Annex XI to
For the Commission
Directive 2003/85/EC updated. It is therefore necessary
to replace the entry for the United Kingdom in the list of
Tonio BORG
national laboratories set out in Part A of that Annex.
Member of the Commission
( 1 ) OJ L 306, 22.11.2003, p. 1.

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