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Member States shall designate one or more national reference laboratories for each European Union reference laboratory designated in accordance with Article 93(1). Member States may designate a national reference laboratory also in the cases where there is no corresponding European Union reference laboratory. A Member State may designate a laboratory situated in another Member State or in a third country that is a Contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. A single laboratory may be designated as a national reference laboratory for more than one Member State.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.