PART 3Amendment of retained direct EU legislation

Amendment of Regulation 378/2005

69.  In Article 6—

(a)in the heading, omit “National”;

(b)for paragraph 1, substitute—

1.  The reference laboratory is to be assisted by a consortium of national laboratories for the duties and tasks set out in 2.2, 2.4 and 3 of Annex 2 to Regulation (EC) No. 1831/2003.;

(c)in paragraph 2, omit “The laboratories listed in Annex II are hereby appointed national reference laboratories to take part in the consortium.”;

(d)in each place in which it occurs, for “CRL”, substitute “reference laboratory”;

(e)omit paragraph 4.