CHAPTER IX

VACCINATION
SECTION 4

Vaccine banks

National vaccine banks
Article 59
1
Member States may, within the framework of the contingency plan provided for in Article 62, establish or maintain a national vaccine bank for storage of reserves of avian influenza vaccines authorised in accordance with Article 5 to Article 15 of Directive 2001/82/EC, to be used for emergency or preventive vaccination.
2
Member States maintaining a national vaccine bank shall inform the Commission of the quantities and types of the stored vaccines.