Council Directive 92/35/EECShow full title

ANNEX I U.K.

[F1 A. LIST OF NATIONAL LABORATORIES FOR AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS U.K.

AT	AGES: Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH — Institut für veterinärmedizinische Untersuchungen Mödling (Austrian Agency for Health and Consumer Protection-Institute for veterinary investigations Mödling) Robert Koch-Gasse 17 A-2340 Mödling Tel.: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail]
BE	CODA — CERVA — VAR Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre Groeselenberg 99 B-1180 Brussels
CY	State Veterinary Laboratory Veterinary Services 1417 Athalassa Nicosia
CZ	Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking Surrey GU24 ONF, UK E-mail: [e-mail]
DE	Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit — Standort Tübingen — Postfach 11 49 72001 Tübingen Tel.: [phone] Fax: [phone]
DK	Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research, Dpt. of Virology, Lindholm, DK-4771 Kalvehave
EE	Veterinaar- ja Toidulaboratoorium Kreutzwaldi 30, 51006 Tartu, Estonia Tel.: [phone] Faks: [phone] E-post: [e-mail]
ES	Laboratorio Central de Sanidad Animal de Algete Carretera de Algete, km 8 Algete 28110 (Madrid) Tel.: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail]
FI	Finnish Food Safety Authority Animal Diseases and Food Safety Research Mustialankatu 3 FI-00790 Helsinki, Finland E-mail: [e-mail] Tel.: [phone] (exchange) Fax: [phone]
FR	Laboratoire d’études et de recherches en pathologie animale et zoonoses AFSSA site de Maisons-Alfort — LERPAZ 22 rue Pierre Curie — BP 67 94703 Maisons-Alfort Cedex FRANCE
GB	Institute for Animal Health Pirbright Laboratory Ash Road Pirbright, Woking Surrey GU12 6DG, UK E-mail: [e-mail]
GR	Hellenic Ministry of Rural Development and Food Centre of Athens Veterinary Institutions Institute of Foot and Mouth Disease and exotic diseases 25 Neapoleos Street 15 310 Ag. Paraskevi Tel.: [phone] Fax: [phone]
HU	Országos Állategészségügyi Intézet (Central Veterinary Institute) H-1581 Budapest 146., Pf. 2. Tel.: [phone] Fax: [phone]
IE	Central Veterinary Research Laboratory Department of Agriculture and Food Abbotstown, Castleknock, Dublin
IT	Centro Nazionale di Referenza per lo studio e l’accertamento delle malattie esotiche degli animali c/o Istituto zooprofilattico sperimentale dell’ Abruzzo e del Molise Via Campo Boario I- 64100 Teramo
LT	National Veterinary Laboratory (Nacionalinė veterinarijos laboratorija) J. Kairiūkščio g. 10 LT-08409 Vilnius
LU	Laboratoire de Médecine Vétérinaire de l’Etat, 54, Avenue Gaston Diderich, L-Luxemburg
LV	—
MT	Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking Surrey GU24 ONF, UK E-mail: [e-mail]
NL	Centraal Instituut voor DierziekteControle CIDC-Lelystad Hoofdvestiging: Houtribweg 39 Nevenvestiging: Edelhertweg 15 Postbus 2004 8203 AA Lelystad
PL	Laboratory Department of Virology Państwowy Instytut Weterynaryjny – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy Al. Partyzantów 57, 24-100 Puławy Tel.: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail]
PT	Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária (LNIV) Estrada de Benfica, 701 P-1549-011 Lisboa
SE	Statens Veterinärmedicinska Anstalt, SE-751 89 Uppsala
SI	Univerza v Ljubljani Veterinarska fakulteta Nationalni veterinarski inštitut, Gerbičeva 60, SI-1000 Ljubljana
SK	Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking Surrey GU24 ONF, UK E-mail: [e-mail]]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Decision of 5 December 2006 amending Council Directives 64/432/EEC, 90/539/EEC, 92/35/EEC, 92/119/EEC, 93/53/EEC, 95/70/EC, 2000/75/EC, 2001/89/EC, 2002/60/EC and Decision 2001/618/EC as regards lists of national reference laboratories and State institutes (notified under document number C(2006) 5856) (Text with EEA relevance) (2006/911/EC).

B. FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE NATIONAL LABORATORIES FOR AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS U.K.

The national laboratories for African horse sickness are responsible for coordinating the standards and diagnostic methods laid down in each diagnostic laboratory of the Member State, for the use of reagents and for the testing of vaccines. To this end, they:

(a)

may provide diagnostic reagents to diagnostic laboratories requesting them;

(b)

will control the quality of all diagnostic reagents used in that Member State;

(c)

will arrange comparative tests periodically;

(d)

will hold isolates of African horse sickness virus from cases confirmed in that Member State;

(e)

will ensure the confirmation of positive results obtained in regional diagnostic laboratories.