Council Directive 92/35/EEC of 29 April 1992 laying down control rules and measures to combat African horse sickness (c. 35)

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ANNEX I U.K.

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

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Textual Amendments

F1 Deleted by Council Directive 2008/73/EC of 15 July 2008 simplifying procedures of listing and publishing information in the veterinary and zootechnical fields and amending Directives 64/432/EEC, 77/504/EEC, 88/407/EEC, 88/661/EEC, 89/361/EEC, 89/556/EEC, 90/426/EEC, 90/427/EEC, 90/428/EEC, 90/429/EEC, 90/539/EEC, 91/68/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 92/35/EEC, 92/65/EEC, 92/66/EEC, 92/119/EEC, 94/28/EC, 2000/75/EC, Decision 2000/258/EC and Directives 2001/89/EC, 2002/60/EC and 2005/94/EC (Text with EEA relevance).

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.