{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-378/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-378/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2005/378",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 378/2005 of 4 March 2005 on detailed rules for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the duties and tasks of the Community Reference Laboratory concerning applications for authorisations of feed additives (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-378",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "... Reference laboratories",
  "text": "1. The reference laboratory is to be assisted by scientific experts or official laboratories for the duties and tasks set out in 2.2, 2.4 and 3 of Annex 2 to Regulation (EC) No. 1831/2003.\n2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, scientific experts or official laboratories must comply with the requirements set out in Annex I.\n3. The scientific experts or official laboratories, including the reference laboratory, shall enter into a contract to define the relations between them, particularly in financial matters. In particular, the contract may provide that the reference laboratory is to distribute a share of the fees it receives to the scientific experts or official laboratories. Subject to this contract, the reference laboratory may issue guidance ... as provided for in Article 12.\n4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 6(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 69(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2022) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 10(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 6(2) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2022) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 10(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(3) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2022) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 10(3)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 69(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(3) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2022) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 10(3)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(3) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2022) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 10(3)(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Art. 6(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 69(e); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in Art. 6 heading omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 69(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2005/378/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:54:47.435872+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."
}