Commission Decision of 17 May 2005 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(2005) 1439) (Text with EEA relevance) (2005/392/EC)

Commission Decision

of 17 May 2005

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(2005) 1439)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/392/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 française 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 of Nancy to send to the Commission the list of Community laboratories to be authorised to carry out those serological tests. Accordingly, the AFSSA Laboratory of 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 of Nancy.

(3) Five laboratories, respectively in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Hungary had been approved by the AFSSA Laboratory of Nancy, in compliance with Decision 2000/258/EC.

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

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

(6) 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 U.K.

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

Article 2 U.K.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 17 May 2005.

For the Commission

Markos Kyprianou

Member of the Commission

ANNEX U.K.

“ANNEX I NAMES OF LABORATORIES

(BE) Belgium U.K.

Institut Pasteur de Bruxelles

Rue Engeland/Engelandstraat 642

B-1180 Brussels

(CZ) Czech Republik U.K.

State Veterinary Institute, National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Rabies

U Sila 1139

CZ-463 11 Liberec 30

(DK) Denmark U.K.

Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research

Lindholm

DK-4771 Kalvehave

(DE) Germany U.K.

1.

Institut für Virologie, Fachbereich Veterinärmedizin

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Frankfurter Straße 107

D-35392 Gießen

2.

Eurovir Hygiene-Institut

Im Biotechnologiepark

D-14943 Luckenwalde

3.

Bayrisches Landesamt für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit

Dienststelle Oberschleißheim

Veterinärstraße 2

D-85764 Oberschleißheim

4.

Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz Sachsen-Anhalt

Fachbereich 4

Veterinäruntersuchungen und -epidemiologie

Haferbreiter Weg 132-135

D-39576 Stendal

5.

Staatliches Veterinäruntersuchungsamt

Zur Taubeneiche 10-12

D-59821 Arnsberg

6.

Institut für epidemiologische Diagnostik

Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut

Standort Wusterhausen

Seestraße 155

D-16868 Wusterhausen

7.

Landesuntersuchungsanstalt für das Gesundheits- und Veterinärwesen Sachsen

Zschopauer Straße 186

D-09126 Chemnitz

(EE) Estonia U.K.

Estonian Veterinary and Food Laboratory

Kreutzwaldi 30

EE-51 006 Tartu

(EL) Greece U.K.

Centre of Athens Veterinary Institutions Virus Department

25, Neapoleos Str

GR-153 10 Ag. Paraskevi, Athens

(ES) Spain U.K.

Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria de Santa Fe

Camino del Jau s/n

E-18320 Santa Fe (Granada)

(FR) France U.K.

1.

AFSSA Nancy

Domaine de Pixérécourt

BP 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 U.K.

1.

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie

Via Romea 14/A

I-35020 Legnaro (PD)

2.

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise

Via Campo Boario

I-64100 Teramo

3.

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana

Via Appia Nuova 1411

I-00178 Roma

(LV) Latvia U.K.

State Veterinary Medicine Diagnostic Centre

Food and Veterinary Service

Lejupes iela 3,

LV-1076 Riga

(LT) Lithuania U.K.

National Veterinary Laboratori/Nacionaline Veterinarijos laboratorija

J. Kairiukscio 10

LT-08409 Vilnius

(HU) Hungary U.K.

Central veterinary Institute

Virological Department

Tabornok utca 2

H-1149 Budapest

(NL) Netherlands U.K.

Central Institute for Animal Disease Control (CIDC) Lelystad

P.O. Box 2004

8203 AA Lelystad

Netherlands

(AT) Austria U.K.

Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH

Veterinärmedizinische Untersuchungen Mödling

Robert-Koch-Gasse 17

A-2340 Mödling

(PL) Poland U.K.

National Veterinary Research Institute

al. Partyzantow 57

PL-24-100 Pulawy

(PT) Portugal U.K.

Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária (LNIV)

Estrada de Benfica 701

P-1500 Lisboa

(SI) Slovenia U.K.

National Veterinary Institute

Gerbičeva 60

SLO-1000 Ljubljana

(SK) Slovakia U.K.

State Veterinary Institute

Pod drahami 918

SK-960 86 Zvolen

(FI) Finland U.K.

National Veterinary and Food Research Institute

PL 45

FIN-00581 Helsinki

(SE) Sweden U.K.

National Veterinary Institute

(Department of Virology)

S-751 89 Uppsala

(UK) United Kingdom U.K.

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

Note: Regularly updated details of contacts persons, faxes and telephone number, e-mail addresses concerning the above laboratories can be found on http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/animal/liveanimals/pets/approval_en.htm” U.K.

(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 last amended by Decision 2004/693/EC (OJ L 315, 14.10.2004, p. 47).