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)

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 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, 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

ANNEX

“ANNEX I NAMES OF LABORATORIES

• (AT) AUSTRIA

  Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH

  Veterinärmedizinische Untersuchungen Mödling

  Robert-Koch-Gasse 17

  A-2340 Mödling

• (BE) BELGIUM

  Institut Pasteur de Bruxelles

  642, rue Engeland

  B-1180 Bruxelles

• (DE) GERMANY

  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

  Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit

  Standort Wusterhausen

  Seestraße 155

  D-16868 Wusterhausen

  7.

  Landesuntersuchungsanstalt für das Gesundheits- und Veterinärwesen Sachsen

  Zschopauer Straße 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 Investigação Veterinária (LNIV)

  Estrada de Benfica N^o 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.”

(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).