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Tests required by this Regulation may be carried out by approved laboratories only.

‘Approved laboratories’ are laboratories that are:

• — members of the UK GLP compliance programme referred to in the Good Laboratory Practice Regulations 1999 , or

• — able to demonstrate compliance with standard EN ISO/IEC 17025: 2017 (general requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories) to the satisfaction of the competent authority.

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The competent authority shall publish a list of approved laboratories.