# 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, Annex III: COMMUNITY REFERENCE LABORATORIES FOR THE DISEASES CONCERNED

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

The functions and duties of the Community reference laboratories for the diseases concerned shall be:
1.. to coordinate, in consultation with the Commission, the methods employed in the Member States for diagnosing the disease concerned, specifically by:
(a) typing, storing and supplying strains of the virus of the relevant disease for serological tests and the preparation of antisera;
(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;
(c) building up and retaining a collection of virus strains and isolates of the relevant disease;
(d) organizing periodic comparative tests of diagnostic procedures at Community level;
(e) collecting and collating data and information on the methods of diagnosis used and the results of tests carried out in the Community;
(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;
(g) keeping abreast of developments in the surveillance, epizootiology and prevention of the relevant disease throughout the world;
(h) retaining expertise on the relevant disease virus and other pertinent viruses to enable rapid differential diagnosis;
(i) acquiring a thorough knowledge of the preparation and use of the products of veterinary immunology used to eradicate and control the relevant disease;
2.. 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;
3.. to facilitate the training or retraining of experts in laboratory diagnosis with a view to the harmonization of diagnostic techniques throughout the Community.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1992/119/annex/III (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-119/annex-III
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