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Official Journal of the European Union
11.2.2011
DECISIONS
COMMISSION DECISION
of 10 February 2011
authorising a laboratory in the Republic of Korea to carry out serological tests to monitor the
effectiveness of rabies vaccines
(notified under document C(2011) 656)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2011/91/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(5) That
laboratory
should
therefore
be
authorised
to
carry
out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
vaccines in dogs, cats and ferrets.
Union,
(6) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Decision
are
in
Having regard to Council Decision 2000/258/EC of 20 March
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
2000 designating a specific institute responsible for establishing
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to
monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines (
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

1 ), and in particular
Article 3(2) thereof,
Article 1
Whereas:
In accordance with Article 3(2) of Decision 2000/258/EC, the
following laboratory is authorised to perform the serological
(1) Decision
2000/258/EC
designates
the
laboratory
of
the
tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines in dogs,
Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de
cats and ferrets:
l’environnement et du travail (ANSES) in Nancy (previously
Komipharm International Co. Ltd
Agence franaise de sécurité sanitaire des aliments (AFSSA)) as
1236-6 Jeoungwang-dong
the specific institute responsible for establishing the
420-450 Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do
criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests
South Korea
to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines. That
Decision also lays down the duties of that laboratory.
Article 2
(2) In
particular,
ANSES,
Nancy,
is
to
appraise
the
labora
This Decision shall apply from 1 March 2011.
tories in Member States and third countries in order to
Article 3
decide whether to authorise the laboratories to carry out
serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
vaccines.
(3) The
competent
authority
of
South
Korea
has
submitted
an application for approval of a laboratory in that third
Done at Brussels, 10 February 2011.
country to perform such serological tests.
For the Commission
(4) ANSES,
Nancy
has
carried
out
an
appraisal
of
that
laboratory and provided the Commission with a
John DALLI
favourable report of that appraisal on 6 September 2010.
Member of the Commission
( 1 ) OJ L 79, 30.3.2000, p. 40.

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