20041008

Commission Decision

of 8 October 2004

amending Decision 2004/233/EC as regards the list of laboratories authorised to check the effectiveness of vaccination against rabies in certain domestic carnivores

(notified under document number C(2004) 3686)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2004/693/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

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 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Decision 2000/258/EC designated the laboratory of the Agence fran?aise de sécurité sanitaire des aliments de Nancy (the AFSSA laboratory, Nancy), France as the institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines. That Decision also provides for the AFSSA laboratory, Nancy to send to the Commission the list of Community laboratories to be authorised to carry out those serological tests. Accordingly, the AFSSA laboratory, Nancy operates the established proficiency testing procedure to appraise laboratories for authorisation to perform the serological tests.

(2) Commission Decision 2004/233/EC of 4 March 2004 authorising laboratories to check the effectiveness of vaccination against rabies in certain domestic carnivores [2] established a list of approved laboratories in the Member States on the grounds of the results of the proficiency tests communicated by the AFSSA laboratory, Nancy.

(3) Three laboratories, respectively in the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal, have been approved by the AFSSA laboratory, Nancy, in compliance with Decision 2000/258/EC.

(4) Accordingly, it is appropriate to add those three laboratories to the list of approved laboratories in the Member States as established in the Annex to Decision 2004/233/EC.

(5) In addition, following the request of Germany, certain amendments should be made to the addresses of two German laboratories.

(6) Furthermore, following the request of Slovenia, the name of the diagnostic laboratory in that Member State should be amended.

(7) Decision 2004/233/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(8) 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

Annex I to Decision 2004/233/EC is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 8 October 2004.

For the Commission

David Byrne

Member of the Commission

[1] OJ L 79, 30.3.2000, p. 40. Decision as amended by Commission Decision 2003/60/EC (OJ L 23, 28.1.2003, p. 30).

[2] OJ L 71, 10.3.2004, p. 30. Decision as amended by Decision 2004/448/EC (OJ L 155, 30.4.2004, p. 84, as corrected in OJ L 193, 1.6.2004, p. 64).

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20041008

ANNEX

20041008

"ANNEX I

NAMES OF LABORATORIES

(AT) AUSTRIA

?sterreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ern?hrungssicherheit GmbH

Veterin?rmedizinische Untersuchungen M?dling

Robert-Koch-Gasse 17

A-2340 M?dling

(BE) BELGIUM

Institut Pasteur de Bruxelles

642, rue Engeland

B-1180 Bruxelles

(DE) GERMANY

1. Institut für Virologie, Fachbereich Veterin?rmedizin

Justus-Liebig-Universit?t Gie?en

Frankfurter Stra?e 107

D-35392 Gie?en

2. Eurovir Hygiene-Institut

Im Biotechnologiepark

D-14943 Luckenwalde

3. Bayrisches Landesamt für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit

Dienststelle Oberschlei?heim

Veterin?rstra?e 2

D-85764 Oberschlei?heim

4. Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz Sachsen-Anhalt

Fachbereich 4

Veterin?runtersuchungen und -epidemiologie

Haferbreiter Weg 132-135

D-39576 Stendal

5. Staatliches Veterin?runtersuchungsamt

Zur Taubeneiche 10-12

D-59821 Arnsberg

6. Institut für epidemiologische Diagnostik

Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut

Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit

Standort Wusterhausen

Seestra?e 155

D-16868 Wusterhausen

7. Landesuntersuchungsanstalt für das Gesundheits- und Veterin?rwesen Sachsen

Zschopauer Stra?e 186

D-09126 Chemnitz

(DK) DENMARK

Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research

Lindholm

DK-4771 Kalvehave

(EL) GREECE

Centre of Athens Veterinary Institutions Virus Department

25, Neapoleos Str

GR-153 10 Ag. Paraskevi, Athens

(ES) SPAIN

Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria de Santa Fe

Camino del Jau s/n

E-18320 Santa Fe (Granada)

(FI) FINLAND

National Veterinary and Food Research Institute

PL 45

FIN-00581 Helsinki

(FR) FRANCE

1. AFSSA Nancy

Domaine de Pixérécourt

B.P. 9

F-54220 Malzeville

2. Laboratoire vétérinaire départemental de la Haute-Garonne

78, rue Boudou

F-31140 Launaguet

3. Laboratoire départemental de la Sarthe

128, rue de Beaugé

F-72018 Le Mans Cedex 2

4. Laboratoire départemental d'analyses du Pas-de-Calais

Parc des Bonnettes

2, rue du Genévrier

F-62022 Arras Cedex

(IT) ITALY

1. Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie

Via Romea 14/A

I-35020 Legnaro (PD)

2. Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise

Via Campio Boario

I-64100 Teramo

3. Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana

Via Appia Nuova 1411

I-00178 Roma Capannelle

(NL) NETHERLANDS

Central Institute for Animal Disease Control (CIDC) Lelystad

P.O. Box 2004

8203 AA Lelystad

Nederland

(PL) POLAND

National Veterinary Research Institute

Al. Partyzantow 57

24-100 Pulawy

Poland

(PT) PORTUGAL

Laboratório Nacional de Investiga??o Veterinária (LNIV)

Estrada de Benfica No 701

P-1500 Lisboa

(SE) SWEDEN

National Veterinary Institute

(Department of Virology)

S-751 89 Uppsala

(SI) SLOVENIA

National Veterinary Institute

Gerbiceva 60

1000 Ljubljana

Slovenia

(SK) SLOVAKIA

State Veterinary Institute

Pod drahami 918

960 86 Zvolen

Slovakia

(UK) UNITED KINGDOM

1. Veterinary Laboratories Agency

Virology Department

Woodham Lane,

New Haw

Addlestone

Surrey KT15 3NB

United Kingdom

2. Biobest

Pentlands Science Park

Bush Loan

Penicuik

Midlothian

EH26 0PZ

United Kingdom

Nota: Regularly updated details of contact persons, fax and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses concerning the above laboratories can be found on

http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/animal/liveanimals/pets/approval_en.htm."

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