B.FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE NATIONAL LABORATORIES FOR AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESSU.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.