The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2018

Approval of testing laboratories

5.—(1) The Welsh Ministers must on application approve laboratories to test samples for the purposes of Chapter C of Annex X if satisfied that the laboratory—

(a) will carry out the testing in accordance with Chapter C of that Annex;

(b) has adequate quality control procedures; and

(c) has adequate procedures to ensure the correct identification of the samples and notification of the test results to the consigning slaughterhouse and to the Welsh Ministers.

(2) For the purposes of this Schedule, an “approved testing laboratory” (“labordy profi a gymeradwywyd”) means—

(a) a laboratory approved under this paragraph;

(b) a laboratory approved under corresponding legislation elsewhere in the United Kingdom;

(c) any national reference laboratory referred to in Annex X or the EU reference laboratory referred to in that Annex; or

(d) a diagnostic laboratory approved by a Member State in accordance with Annex X.