The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Council Decision 2000/258/EC designating a specific institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines U.K.

5.—(1) Council Decision 2000/258/EC designating a specific institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines is amended as follows.

(2) For Article 1 substitute—

“Article 1 U.K.

The laboratory at Woodham Lane, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB is designated as the institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines within the United Kingdom in accordance with the OIE Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals, as amended from time to time M1 .”.

(3) In Article 3—

(a) in the first subparagraph of paragraph 1, for “Member State, documented by AFSSA, Nancy, the competent authority of the Member State” substitute “ part of [F1 Great Britain], any relevant competent authority ”;

(b) for the second unnumbered subparagraph of paragraph 1 substitute—

[F2 “The Secretary of State, with the consent of the Welsh Ministers and the Scottish Ministers must draw up, keep up to date and publish a list of those laboratories that have been so authorised.”];

(c) in paragraph 2—

(i) omit “documented by AFSSA Nancy”;

(ii) omit “in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 5(2)”;

(d) after paragraph 2 insert—

“2A.   In this Article and in Annex 2—

(a) “the relevant competent authorities” means—

(i) in relation to England, the Secretary of State;

F3 (ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F3 (ii)] in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;

[F3 (iii)] in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;

(b) “third country” means any country other than the United Kingdom.”.

(e) omit paragraph 3.

(4) Omit Articles 4, 5 and 6.

(5) Omit Annex 1.

(6) In Annex 2—

(a) in the words before the first indent, for “The specific” to “vaccines” substitute “ The institute mentioned in Article 1 ”;

(b) at the end of the first indent, insert “ in accordance with the OIE Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals, as amended from time to time ”;

(c) omit the second indented paragraph;

(d) in the third indent, omit the words “and to the Commission”;

(e) in the sixth indent, for “Commission and the competent authorities concerned” substitute “ relevant competent authorities ”.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 5(3)(a) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(a), 25(2)(a)

F2 Words in reg. 5(3)(b) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(a), 25(2)(b)

F3 Reg. 5(3)(d): sub-para. (ii) of inserted para. 2A(a) omitted and next sub-paras. renumbered accordingly (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by virtue of The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(a), 25(2)(c)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 5 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(1)

Marginal Citations

M1 Available online at: http://www.oie.int/en/standard-setting/terrestrial-manual/access-online/, or a print version is available from the Defra Exotic Disease Control team, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, SW1P 3JR.