{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-75/annex-II/division-B",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2000/75",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2000/75/EC of 20 November 2000 laying down specific provisions for the control and eradication of bluetongue",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-75",
  "path": "annex/II/division/B",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "B",
  "heading": "TASKS OF THE COMMUNITY REFERENCE LABORATORY FOR BLUETONGUE",
  "text": "The Community reference laboratory has the following tasks:\n1.. coordinating, in consultation with the Commission, diagnostic methods for bluetongue in the Member States, in particular by:\n(a) specifying, holding and supplying strains of the bluetongue virus for the purpose of serological tests and the preparation of antiserum;\n(b) the provision of reference sera and other reference reagents to the national reference laboratories for the purpose of standardising the tests and the reagents used in each Member State;\n(c) the establishment and conservation of a collection of strains and isolates of the bluetongue virus;\n(d) the regular organisation of Community comparative testing of diagnostic procedures;\n(e) the collection and collation of data and information concerning the diagnostic methods used and the results of the tests carried out in the Community;\n(f) the classification of isolates of the bluetongue virus, using the most advanced methods, in order to provide a better understanding of the epizootiology of bluetongue;\n(g) monitoring developments worldwide in the area of surveillance, epizootiology and prevention of bluetongue;\n2.. actively assisting in the identification of centres of bluetongue infection in the Member States by studying viral isolates sent to it for confirmation of diagnosis, classification and epizootiological studies;\n3.. facilitating the provision of training and refresher courses for experts in laboratory diagnostics with a view to harmonising diagnostic techniques throughout the Community;\n4.. mutual and reciprocal information exchange with the World Bluetongue Laboratory designated by the International Office for Epizootics (OIE), in particular concerning global developments with regard to bluetongue.",
  "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/2000/75/annex/II/division/B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:01.443088+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."
}