[F1ANNEX XII U.K. BIO-SECURITY STANDARDS FOR LABORATORIES AND ESTABLISHMENTS HANDLING LIVE FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1358 of 4 August 2015 amending Annexes XI, XII and XV to Council Directive 2003/85/EC as regards the list of laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus and minimum bio-security standards applicable to them (notified under document C(2015) 5341) (Text with EEA relevance).

1. The laboratories and establishments handling live foot-and-mouth disease virus must operate at least in accordance with Section I of the ‘Minimum biorisk management standards for laboratories working with foot-and-mouth disease virus in vitro and in vivo’ in Appendix 7 to the Report adopted by the 40th General Session of the European Commission for the control of foot-and-mouth disease (EuFMD) on 22 - 24 April 2013 in Rome (bio-security standards) (1) . U.K.

2. The laboratories and establishments handling live foot-and-mouth disease virus shall be subject to regular and risk-based inspections, including those carried out by and on behalf of the European Commission. U.K.

3. The inspection team shall have at its disposition expertise from the Commission or a Member State in foot-and-mouth disease and bio-security in laboratories working with microbiological hazards. U.K.

4. Inspection teams deployed by the European Commission shall submit a report to the Commission and the Member States in accordance with Decision 98/139/EC.] U.K.

[F1http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/eufmd/Lab_guidelines/FMD_Minimumstandards_2013_Final_version.pdf.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1358 of 4 August 2015 amending Annexes XI, XII and XV to Council Directive 2003/85/EC as regards the list of laboratories authorised to handle live foot-and-mouth disease virus and minimum bio-security standards applicable to them (notified under document C(2015) 5341) (Text with EEA relevance).