Commission Decision of 23 July 2001 on additional guarantees in intra-Community trade of pigs relating to Aujeszky's disease, criteria to provide information on this disease and repealing Decisions 93/24/EEC and 93/244/EEC (notified under document number C(2001) 2236) (Text with EEA relevance) (2001/618/EC) (repealed)

2. Standardisation, sensitivity and specificity of the test. U.K.

(a)

The sensitivity of the test must be of such a level that the following Community reference sera are scored positive:

• Community reference serum ADV 1 at 1:8 dilution,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE A,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE B,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE C,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE D,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE E,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE F.

(b)

The specificity of the test must be of such a level that the following Community reference sera are scored negative:

• Community reference serum ADV-gE G,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE H,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE J,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE K,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE L,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE M,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE N,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE O,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE P,

• Community reference serum ADV-gE Q.

(c)

For batch control, Community reference serum ADV 1 must be scored positive at 1:8 dilution and one of the Community reference serum sera from ADV-gE G to ADV-gE Q, as listed in point (b), must be scored negative.

For batch control of ADV-gB and ADV-gD kits, Community reference serum ADV 1 must be scored positive at the dilution of 1:2 and Community reference serum Q referred to in (b) should be scored negative.

(d)

The institutes listed below will, in addition, be responsible for checking the quality of the ELISA method in each Member State, and in particular for producing and standardising national reference sera according to the Community reference sera.

• Belgium — Centre de Recherches vétérinaires et agrochimiques, 1180 Bruxelles;

• Denmark — Statens veterinære Institut for Virusforsknig, Lindholm, 4771 Kalvehave;

• Germany — Bundesforschungsanstalt für Viruskrankheiten der Tiere, 16868 Wusterhausen,

• Greece — Veterinary Institute of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, 15310 Ag. Paraskevi,

• Spain — Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria de Algete, Madrid,

• France — École nationale vétérinaire, Alfort, 94704 Maisons-Alfort,

• Ireland — Veterinary Research Laboratory, Abbotstown, Castleknock, Dublin 15,

• Italy — Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia a dell'Emilia-Romagna, Brescia,

• Luxembourg — Laboratoire de Médecine Vétérinaire de l'État, 1020 Luxembourg,

• The Netherlands — Instituut voor Veehouderij en Diergezondheid (ID-DLO), 8200 AB Lelystad,

• Austria — Bundesanstalt für veterinärmedizinische Untersuchungen in Mödling, 2,40 Modling,

• Portugal — Laboratório Nacional de Investigaão Veterinária, 1500 Lisboa,

• Finland — Eläinlääkintä- ja elintarviketutkimuslaitos, 00581 Helsinki,

• Sweden — Statens veterinarmedicinska anstalt, 75189 Uppsala,

• United Kingdom — Veterinary Laboratory Agency, New Haw, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 3NB.