Article 4 Amendment of Commission Decisions establishing diagnostic procedures and approving diagnostic manuals as they apply in England

(1)

The Commission Decisions listed in paragraph (2) are amended by inserting the following at each of the places listed in that paragraph—

“In England, the procedures, sampling methods and criteria for the evaluation of the results of laboratory tests must be—

(a)

those set out in this Manual; or

(b)

those authorised by the Secretary of State, provided that—

(i)

the sensitivity and specificity of the authorised laboratory test has been demonstrated as being effective following a comparative test; or

(ii)

where no such evaluation has been organised for a specific type of laboratory test, the sensitivity and specificity of the authorised laboratory test have been validated by the national reference laboratory so that the laboratory test is fit for the purposes for which it is used.”.

(2)

The places in the Commission Decisions are—

(a)

in Commission Decision 2000/428/EC of 4 July 2000 establishing diagnostic procedures, sampling methods and criteria for the evaluation of the results of laboratory tests for the confirmation and differential diagnosis of swine vesicular disease^f1, in the Annex, in Chapter 1, at the end, as paragraph 3;

(b)

in Commission Decision 2002/106/EC of 1 February 2002 approving a Diagnostic Manual establishing diagnostic procedures, sampling methods and criteria for evaluation of the laboratory tests for the confirmation of classical swine fever^f2, in the Annex, in Chapter 1, at the end, as paragraph 4;

(c)

in Commission Decision 2003/422/EC of 26 May 2003 approving an African swine fever diagnostic manual^f3, in the Annex, in Chapter 1, at the end, as paragraph 4.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: EUDN 2000/428, amended by S.I. 2018/1410.
f2: EUDN 2002/106, amended by S.I. 2018/1410.
f3: EUDN 2003/422, amended by S.I. 2018/1410.