# The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018, Regulation 5: Council Decision 2000/258/EC designating a specific institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines


(1) Council Decision 2000/258/EC designating a specific institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines is amended as follows.
(2) For Article 1 substitute—
“Article 1
The laboratory at Woodham Lane, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB is designated as the institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines within the United Kingdom in accordance with the OIE Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals, as amended from time to time .”.
(3) In Article 3—
(a) in the first subparagraph of paragraph 1, for “Member State, documented by AFSSA, Nancy, the competent authority of the Member State” substitute “ part of Great Britain, any relevant competent authority ”;
(b) for the second unnumbered subparagraph of paragraph 1 substitute—
“ The Secretary of State, with the consent of the Welsh Ministers and the Scottish Ministers must draw up, keep up to date and publish a list of those laboratories that have been so authorised. ”;
(c) in paragraph 2—
(i) omit “documented by AFSSA Nancy”;
(ii) omit “in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 5(2)”;
(d) after paragraph 2 insert—
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2A In this Article and in Annex 2—
(a) “the relevant competent authorities” means—
(i) in relation to England, the Secretary of State;
(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(ii) in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;
(iii) in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;
(b) “third country” means any country other than the United Kingdom.”.
(e) omit paragraph 3.
(4) Omit Articles 4, 5 and 6.
(5) Omit Annex 1.
(6) In Annex 2—
(a) in the words before the first indent, for “The specific” to “vaccines” substitute “ The institute mentioned in Article 1 ”;
(b) at the end of the first indent, insert “ in accordance with the OIE Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals, as amended from time to time ”;
(c) omit the second indented paragraph;
(d) in the third indent, omit the words “and to the Commission”;
(e) in the sixth indent, for “Commission and the competent authorities concerned” substitute “ relevant competent authorities ”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1410/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/exotic-disease-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-5
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