{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-119/annex-III",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-119/annex-III.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1992/119",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 92/119/EEC of 17 December 1992 introducing general Community measures for the control of certain animal diseases and specific measures relating to swine vesicular disease",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-119",
  "path": "annex/III",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "COMMUNITY REFERENCE LABORATORIES FOR THE DISEASES CONCERNED",
  "text": "The functions and duties of the Community reference laboratories for the diseases concerned shall be:\n1.. to coordinate, in consultation with the Commission, the methods employed in the Member States for diagnosing the disease concerned, specifically by:\n(a) typing, storing and supplying strains of the virus of the relevant disease for serological tests and the preparation of antisera;\n(b) supplying standard sera and other reference reagents to the national reference laboratories in order to standardize the tests and reagents used in the Member States;\n(c) building up and retaining a collection of virus strains and isolates of the relevant disease;\n(d) organizing periodic comparative tests of diagnostic procedures at Community level;\n(e) collecting and collating data and information on the methods of diagnosis used and the results of tests carried out in the Community;\n(f) characterizing isolates of the virus of the relevant disease by the most up-to-date methods to allow greater understanding of the epizootiology of the disease;\n(g) keeping abreast of developments in the surveillance, epizootiology and prevention of the relevant disease throughout the world;\n(h) retaining expertise on the relevant disease virus and other pertinent viruses to enable rapid differential diagnosis;\n(i) acquiring a thorough knowledge of the preparation and use of the products of veterinary immunology used to eradicate and control the relevant disease;\n2.. to assist actively in the diagnosis of outbreaks of the relevant disease in Member States by receiving virus isolates for confirmatory diagnosis, characterization and epizootiological studies;\n3.. to facilitate the training or retraining of experts in laboratory diagnosis with a view to the harmonization of diagnostic techniques throughout the Community.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1992/119/annex/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:20.111119+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}