# Council Directive 2003/85/EC of 29 September 2003 on Community measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease repealing Directive 85/511/EEC and Decisions 89/531/EEC and 91/665/EEC and amending Directive 92/46/EEC (Text with EEA relevance), Division 1.5: Antibody detection (non-structural proteins)

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

The standards for the detection of antibody to foot-and-mouth disease virus shall be established in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 89(2) after consultation of the Community Reference Laboratory.
The Commission may arrange that standardised reference sera are adopted as a result of standardisation exercises between the Community Reference Laboratory and the National Laboratories. These reference sera will be adopted as the standards for use by National Laboratories within the Community.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2003/85/annex/XIII/part/B/division/1/division/1.5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2003-85/annex-XIII/part-B/division-1/division-1.5
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