{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-423/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2016/423",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/423 of 18 March 2016 authorising certain laboratories in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and the United States to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines in dogs, cats and ferrets (notified under document C(2016) 1609) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-423",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/423\nof 18 March 2016\nauthorising certain laboratories in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and the United States to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines in dogs, cats and ferrets\n(notified under document C(2016) 1609)\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, as the specific institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines. The AFSSA has now been integrated into the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (ANSES) in France.\n(2)\nDecision 2000/258/EC provides, inter alia, that the ANSES is to appraise laboratories in third countries that have applied for approval to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines.\n(3)\nThe competent authority of Egypt has submitted an application for the approval of the Animal Health Research Institute in Giza, and the ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 29 September 2015 for this laboratory.\n(4)\nThe competent authority of the United Arab Emirates has submitted an application for the approval of the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory in Dubai, and the ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 29 September 2015 for this laboratory.\n(5)\nThe competent authority of the United States has submitted an application for the approval of the Atlanta Health Associates Rabies Laboratory in Cumming, the Virology Laboratory of Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine in Auburn and the Rabies Laboratory of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (‘the US laboratories’), and the ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 29 September 2015 for the US laboratories.\n(6)\nThe Animal Health Research Institute in Giza, the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory in Dubai and the US laboratories should therefore be authorised to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines in dogs, cats and ferrets.\n(7)\nThe measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 79, 30.3.2000, p. 40."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2016/423/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."
}