# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1729 of 17 November 2020 on the monitoring and reporting of antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic and commensal bacteria and repealing Implementing Decision 2013/652/EU (notified under document C(2020) 7894) (Only the English version is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance), Article 3: Sampling framework and analysis

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Member States shall sample the different food-producing animal populations and fresh meat derived thereof, as referred to in Article 1(4), and test the bacterial isolates obtained therefrom for antimicrobial susceptibility in accordance with the technical requirements set out in Part A of the Annex.
However, for the monitoring of Salmonella spp. in populations of broilers, laying hens and fattening turkeys, Member States may use bacterial isolates already obtained within the sampling framework of the national control programmes provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003.
2. National reference laboratories for AMR, or other laboratories designated by the competent authority in accordance with Article 37 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, shall be responsible for carrying-out:
(a) the antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacterial isolates, referred to in paragraph 1, in accordance with the technical requirements set out in point 4 of Part A of the Annex;
(b) the specific monitoring of ESBL-, AmpC- or CP-producing E. coli in accordance with the technical requirements set out in point 5 of Part A of the Annex;
(c) the alternative method referred to in point 6 of Part A of the Annex.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/1729/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1729/article-3
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