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

Commission Decision 2003/422/EC approving an African swine fever diagnostic manual

8.—(1) Commission Decision 2003/422/EC approving an African swine fever diagnostic manual is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 1—

(a) in paragraph 2, in the words before point (a), for “Member States” substitute “The Secretary of State, with the consent of each other authority who in relation to any constituent part of the United Kingdom is the appropriate Minister,”;

(b) for paragraph 3 substitute—

“3.   The United Kingdom National Reference Laboratory may apply modifications to the laboratory tests referred to in the Manual annexed to this Decision or use different tests, provided that an equal sensitivity and specificity can be demonstrated. The sensitivity and specificity of these modified or different tests must be evaluated in periodic tests.”;

(c) after paragraph 3, insert —

“4.   For the purposes of this Decision—

(a) “the appropriate Minister” means—

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

(ii) in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;

(iii) in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;

(iv) in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;

(b) “the competent authority” means the appropriate Minister for the relevant constituent part of the United Kingdom;

(c) the United Kingdom National Reference Laboratory is the Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking Surrey GU24 ONF.”.

(3) Omit Article 3.

(4) The Annex is in accordance with paragraphs (5) to (8).

(5) In Chapter 4 (checking and sampling procedures), in Section A, in paragraph 1, for “Member States” substitute “The appropriate Ministers”;

(6) In Chapter 5 (general procedures and criteria for collection and transport of samples), in Section C, in paragraph 4, omit “to the Community Reference Laboratory for ASF”;

(7) In Chapter 6 (principles and use of virological tests and evaluation of their results)—

(a) in Section B, in paragraph 5—

(i) in the first unnumbered subparagraph, for the words from “a National” to “Community Reference Laboratory” substitute “the National Reference Laboratory, or any other laboratory authorised by the Secretary of State with the consent of the other appropriate Ministers”;

(ii) omit the second unnumbered subparagraph;

(b) in Section E, in paragraph 2—

(i) omit the first unnumbered subparagraph;

(ii) in the second unnumbered paragraph—

(aa) after “laboratories authorised” insert “by the Secretary of State with the consent of the other appropriate Ministers,”;

(bb) for “Community” substitute “National”;

(iii) omit the third unnumbered subparagraph;

(8) In Chapter 7 (principles and use of serological tests and evaluation of their results), in Section B—

(a) in paragraph 1, in the second unnumbered subparagraph, omit “periodically organised by the Community Reference Laboratory”;

(b) in paragraph 3, in the subparagraph before the first indent, for the words from “national laboratories” to the end of the sentence, substitute “the National Reference Laboratory, making use of a panel of reference sera”.