Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (ANSES) with its research laboratory for bee diseases, Sophia-Antipolis Laboratory, France, is hereby designated as the EU reference laboratory in the field of bee health from 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2016.

Certain responsibilities and tasks for that laboratory are set out in the Annex to this Regulation.