Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1099 of 1 August 2018 amending Annex XI to Council Directive 2003/85/EC as regards the list of laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus and amending Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/136 as regards the denomination of the designated European Union reference laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease (notified under document C(2018) 4987) (Text with EEA relevance) (c. 1099)

Article 1

Annex XI to Directive 2003/85/EC is replaced in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

Article 1 of Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/136 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 1

The consortium ANSES & SCIENSANO set up by the Laboratory for Animal Health of the Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES), Maisons-Alfort, France, and the Laboratory for Exotic Viruses and Particular Diseases of the federal research centre Sciensano, Uccle, Belgium, is hereby designated as the European Union reference laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease for an undetermined period.’

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 1 August 2018.

For the Commission

Vytenis Andriukaitis

Member of the Commission