The Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria — Área de Sanidad Animal, Madrid, Spain shall have the responsibilities and tasks of the European Union reference laboratory for African horse sickness and bluetongue as set out respectively in Annex III to Directive 92/35/EEC and Annex II(B) to Directive 2000/75/EC.
Annex II to Directive 92/35/EEC is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation.
Annex II(A) to Directive 2000/75/EC is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.
Annex VII to Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 is amended in accordance with Annex III to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2019.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 16 March 2018.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude Juncker