{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1993-152/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/1993/152",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 8 February 1993 laying down the criteria for vaccines to be used against Newcastle disease in the context of routine vaccination programmes (93/152/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1993-152",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Decision\nof 8 February 1993\nlaying down the criteria for vaccines to be used against Newcastle disease in the context of routine vaccination programmes\n(93/152/EEC)\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,\nHaving regard to Council Directive 90/539/EEC of 15 October 1990 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in and imports from third countries of poultry and hatching eggs, as last amended by Council Directive 92/65/EEC, and in particular Annex III thereof,\nWhereas Annex III of Directive 90/539/EEC states that the Commission may determine the criteria for using vaccines against Newcastle disease in the context of routine vaccination programmes;\nWhereas the said criteria shall ensure that live attenuated and inactivated vaccines used in routine vaccination programmes fulfil certain requirements relating in the intracerebral pathogenicity index (ICPI) in respect of the Newcastle disease virus strain used in the said vaccines;\nWhereas it seems desirable that the level of intracerebral pathogenicity index virus strains to be used in vaccine production should be clearly defined;\nWhereas the Scientific Veterinary Committee and the Standing Veterinary Committee have been consulted,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 303, 31.10.1990, p. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No L 268, 14.9.1992, p. 54."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/1993/152/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}