ANNEX XREFERENCE LABORATORIES, SAMPLING AND LABORATORY ANALYSIS METHODS

CHAPTER ANational reference laboratories

1.The designated national reference laboratory is to:

  1. (a)

    have at its disposal facilities and expert personnel enabling it to show at all times, and especially when the disease in question first appears, the type and strain of the agent of TSE, and to confirm results obtained by regional diagnostic laboratories. Where it is not capable of identifying the strain-type of the agent, it shall set up a procedure to ensure that the identification of the strain is referred to the Community reference laboratory;

  2. (b)

    verify diagnostic methods used in regional diagnostic laboratories;

  3. (c)

    be responsible for coordination of diagnostic standards and methods within the Member State. To this end, it:

    • may provide diagnostic reagents to laboratories approved by the Member State;

    • is to control the quality of all diagnostic reagents used in the Member State;

    • is to periodically arrange comparative tests;

    • is to hold isolates of the agents of the disease in question, or corresponding tissues containing such agents, coming from cases confirmed in the Member State;

    • is to ensure confirmation of results obtained in diagnostic laboratories designated by the Member State;

  4. (d)

    is to cooperate with the Community reference laboratory.

2.

However, by way of derogation from point 1, Member States which do not have a national reference laboratory are to use the services of the Community reference laboratory or of national reference laboratories in other Member States.

F13.The national reference laboratories are:

Austria:

Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH, Institut für veterinärmedizinische Untersuchungen Mödling

Robert Koch Gasse 17

A-2340 Mödling

Belgium:

CERVA -CODA-VAR

Centre d'Étude et de Recherches Vétérinaires et Agrochimiques

Centrum voor Onderzoek in Diergeneeskunde en Agrochemie

Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre

Groeselenberg 99

B-1180 Bruxelles

F2Bulgaria:

Национален диагностичен научноизследователски ветеринарномедицински институт Проф. Д-р Георги Павлов

Национална референтна лаборатория Tрансмисивни спонгиформни енцефалопатии

бул. Пенчо Славейков

София 1606

(National Diagnostic Veterinary Research Institute Prof. Dr. Georgi Pavlov National Reference Laboratory for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

15, Pencho Slaveykov Blvd.

1606 Sofia)

Cyprus:

State Veterinary Laboratories

Veterinary Services

CY-1417 Athalassa

Nicosia

Czech Republic:

Státní veterinární ústav Jihlava

Rantířovská 93

586 05 Jihlava

Denmark:

Danmarks Fødevareforskning

Bülowsvej 27

DK-1790 København V

Estonia:

Veterinaar- ja Toidulaboratoorium

Kreutzwaldi 30

Tartu 51006

Finland:

Eläinlääkintä- ja elintarvikelaitos

Hämeentie 57

FIN-00550 Helsinki

France:

Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des aliments

Laboratoire de pathologie bovine

31, avenue Tony Garnier

69 364 LYON CEDEX 07

Germany:

Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit

Anstaltsteil Insel Riems Boddenblick 5A

D-17498 Insel Riems

Greece:

Ministry of Agriculture — Veterinary Laboratory of Larisa

7th km of Larisa — Trikala Highway

GR-411 10 Larisa

Hungary:

Országos Állategészségügyi Intézet (OÁI)

Pf. 2.

Tábornok u. 2.

H-1581 Budapest

Ireland:

Central Veterinary Research Laboratory

Young's Cross

Celbridge

Co. Kildare

Italy:

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta — CEA

Via Bologna, 148

I-10154 Torino

Latvia:

State Veterinary Medicine Diagnostic Centre

Lejupes Str. 3

Riga LV 1076

Lithuania:

Nacionalinė veterinarijos laboratorija

J. Kairiūkščio g. 10

LT-08409 Vilnius

Luxembourg:

CERVA -CODA-VAR

Centre d'Étude et de Recherches Vétérinaires et Agrochimiques

Centrum voor Onderzoek in Diergeneeskunde en Agrochemie

Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre

Groeselenberg 99

B-1180 Bruxelles

Malta:

National Veterinary Laboratory

Albert Town Marsa

Netherlands:

Centraal Instituut voor Dierziektecontrole-Lelystad

Houtribweg 3g

8221 RA Lelystad

Postbus 2004

8203 AA Lelystad

Poland:

Państwowy Instytut Weterynaryjny (PIWet)

24-100 Puławy

al. Partyzantów 57

Portugal:

Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária Estrada de Benfica

701 P-1500 Lisboa

F2Romania:

Institutul de Diagnostic și Sănătate Animală

Strada Dr. Staicovici nr. 63, sector 5

codul 050557, București.

Slovakia:

State Veterinary Institute Zvolen

Pod dráhami 918

SK-960 86, Zvolen

Slovenia:

National Veterinary Institute

Gerbičeva 60

1000 Ljubljana

Spain:

Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria (Algete)

Ctra. de Algete km. 8

28110 Algete (Madrid)

Sweden:

National Veterinary Institute

S-751 89 Uppsala

United Kingdom:

Veterinary Laboratories Agency

Woodham Lane

New Haw Addlestone Surrey KT15 3NB