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[F2Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria — Área de Sanidad Animal
Ctra. M-106, P.K. 1,4
28110 Algete (Madrid)
ESPAÑA]
Textual Amendments
F2 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/415 of 16 March 2018 laying down additional responsibilities and tasks for the European Union reference laboratory for African horse sickness and amending Annex II to Council Directive 92/35/EEC, Annex II to Council Directive 2000/75/EC and Annex VII to Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance).
Textual Amendments
The Community reference laboratory has the following tasks:
coordinating, in consultation with the Commission, diagnostic methods for bluetongue in the Member States, in particular by:
specifying, holding and supplying strains of the bluetongue virus for the purpose of serological tests and the preparation of antiserum;
the provision of reference sera and other reference reagents to the national reference laboratories for the purpose of standardising the tests and the reagents used in each Member State;
the establishment and conservation of a collection of strains and isolates of the bluetongue virus;
the regular organisation of Community comparative testing of diagnostic procedures;
the collection and collation of data and information concerning the diagnostic methods used and the results of the tests carried out in the Community;
the classification of isolates of the bluetongue virus, using the most advanced methods, in order to provide a better understanding of the epizootiology of bluetongue;
monitoring developments worldwide in the area of surveillance, epizootiology and prevention of bluetongue;
actively assisting in the identification of centres of bluetongue infection in the Member States by studying viral isolates sent to it for confirmation of diagnosis, classification and epizootiological studies;
facilitating the provision of training and refresher courses for experts in laboratory diagnostics with a view to harmonising diagnostic techniques throughout the Community;
mutual and reciprocal information exchange with the World Bluetongue Laboratory designated by the International Office for Epizootics (OIE), in particular concerning global developments with regard to bluetongue.