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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-130/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2015/130",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/130 of 26 January 2015 authorising laboratories in China to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines (notified under document C(2015) 279) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-130",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/130\nof 26 January 2015\nauthorising laboratories in China to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines\n(notified under document C(2015) 279)\n(Text with EEA relevance)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Council Decision 2000/258/EC of 20 March 2000 designating a specific institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines, and in particular Article 3(2) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nDecision 2000/258/EC designates the Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des aliments (AFSSA) in Nancy, France (integrated since 1 July 2010 into the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail, ANSES), as the specific institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines.\n(2)\nThat Decision provides that the ANSES is to document the appraisal of laboratories in third countries that have applied to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines.\n(3)\nThe competent authority of China has submitted an application for approval of the Diagnostic Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife Associated Zoonoses (DLR) of Changchun Veterinary Research Institute in Changchun and the Laboratory of Epidemiology of the Military Veterinary Research Institute in Changchun, which are supported by a favourable appraisal report established for those laboratories by the ANSES dated 15 September 2014.\n(4)\nThose laboratories should therefore be authorised to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines in dogs, cats and ferrets.\n(5)\nThe measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 79, 30.3.2000, p. 40."
    }
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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."
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