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ANNEX III

List and duties of national classical swine fever laboratories 1. The national classical swine fever laboratories are as follows: Belgium Centre d'etude et de recherche vétérinaires et agrochimiques, 1180 Bruxelles Denmark Statens Veterinære Institut for Virusforskning, Lindholm, 4771 Kalvehave Germany Bundesforschungsanstalt für Viruskrankheiten der Tiere, 17498 Insel Riems Greece Veterinary Institute of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, 15310 Ag. Paraskevi Spain Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal, 28130 Valdeolmos (Madrid) France AFSSA-Ploufragan, Zoopole des Côtes d'Armor, 22440 Ploufragan Ireland Veterinary Research Laboratory, Abbotstown, Castleknock, Dublin 15 Italy Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Umbria e delle Marche, 06100 Perugia Luxembourg Laboratoire de Médicine Vétérinare de l'Etat, 1020 Luxembourg The Netherlands Instituut voor Veehouderij en Diergezondheid (ID-Lelystad), 8200 AB Lelystad Austria Bundesanstalt für Vet. Med. Untersuchungen in Modling, Robert Koch-Gasse 17, 2340 Modling Portugal Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária, 1500 Lisboa Finland Eläinlääkintä-ja elintarviketutkimuslaitos, 00231 Helsinki/Anstalten för veterinärmedicin och livsmedel, 00231 Helsingfors Sweden Statens veterinärmedicinska anstalt, 75189 Uppsala United Kingdom Veterinary Laboratories Agency, New Haw, Weybridge, Surrey KT153NB 2. The national classical swine fever laboratories are responsible for ensuring that in each Member State the laboratory testing to detect the presence of classical swine fever and the identification of the genetic type of virus isolates are carried out in accordance with the diagnostic manual. To this end they may make special agreements with the Community reference laboratory or with other national laboratories. 3. The national classical swine fever laboratory in each Member State is responsible for coordinating the standards and diagnostic methods in each classical swine fever diagnostic laboratory within the Member State. To this end: they may provide diagnostic reagents to individual laboratories; they are to control the quality of all diagnostic reagents used in that Member State; they are to arrange comparative tests periodically; they are to hold isolates of classical swine fever virus from cases and outbreaks confirmed in that Member State.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-09 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.