ANNEX XREFERENCE LABORATORIES, SAMPLING AND LABORATORY ANALYSIS METHODS
CHAPTER ANational reference laboratories
1.The designated national reference laboratory is to:
- (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;
- (b)
verify diagnostic methods used in regional diagnostic laboratories;
- (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;
- (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 |