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Official Journal of the European Union
28.6.2011
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION
of 27 June 2011
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(2011) 4385)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2011/378/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(4)
Accordingly, it is necessary to replace the entry for Spain
in the list of national laboratories set out in Part A
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC.
Union,
(5) Part
A
of
Annex
XI
to
Directive
2003/85/EC
should
Having regard to Council Directive 2003/85/EC of 29
therefore be amended accordingly.
September 2003 on Community measures for the control of
(6) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Decision
are
in
foot-and-mouth disease repealing Directive 85/511/EEC and
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
Decisions 89/531/EEC and 91/665/EEC and amending
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
Directive 92/46/EEC ( 1 ), and in particular Article 67(2) thereof,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Whereas:
Article 1
(1) Directive
2003/85/EC
sets
out
minimum
control In Part A of Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC, the entry for
measures to be applied in the event of an outbreak of
Spain is replaced by the following:
foot-and-mouth disease and certain preventive measures
aimed at increasing the awareness and preparedness of
‘ES Spain —
Laboratorio
Central
de
Sanidad
Spain’
the competent authorities and the farming community
Animal, Algete, Madrid
concerning that disease.
— Centro de Investigación en
Sanidad Animal (CISA),
(2) Those
preventive
measures
include
an
obligation
on
Valdeolmos, Madrid
Member States to ensure that the handling of live foot-
and-mouth disease virus for research and diagnosis is
carried out only in the approved laboratories listed in
Article 2
Part A of Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC.
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
(3)
Spain has officially informed the Commission that the
Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA),
Valdeolmos, Madrid, complies with the requirements
Done at Brussels, 27 June 2011.
laid down in Article 65 of Directive 2003/85/EC. Spain
requested that the CISA be added to the list of national
For the Commission
laboratories, authorised to handle the live foot-and-
mouth disease virus, set out in Part A of Annex XI to
John DALLI
that Directive.
Member of the Commission
( 1 ) OJ L 306, 22.11.2003, p. 1.

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