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ANNEXU.K.

Annexes X and XI to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 are amended as follows:

1.

In Annex X, Chapter A, point 3 is replaced by the following:

3.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

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

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

2.

Annex XI, Part A is amended as follows:

(a)

point 1(a)(i) is replaced by the following:

‘(i)

the skull excluding the mandible and including the brain and eyes, and the spinal cord of bovine animals aged over 12 months, the vertebral column excluding the vertebrae of the tail, the spinous and transverse processes of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae and the median sacral crest and wings of the sacrum, but including the dorsal root ganglia of bovine animals aged over 24 months, and the tonsils, the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum and the mesentery of bovine animals of all ages;

(b)

point 13 is replaced by the following:

13.Member States may decide to allow dispatch of heads or of un-split carcases containing specified risk material to another Member State, only after that other Member State has agreed to receive the material and has approved the specific dispatching conditions applicable to such transport.

However, carcases, half carcases or half carcases cut into no more than three wholesale cuts, and quarters containing no specified risk material other than the vertebral column, including dorsal root ganglia, may be imported from a third country into a Member State, or may be dispatched to another Member State without the latter's prior agreement.

Exports outside the Community of heads and of fresh meat of bovine, ovine or caprine animals containing specified risk materials shall be prohibited.