Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/136 of 25 January 2018 designating the European Union reference laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease and amending Annex II to Council Directive 92/119/EEC as regards the European Union reference laboratory for swine vesicular disease (notified under document C(2018) 299) (Text with EEA relevance. )

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2018/136

of 25 January 2018

designating the European Union reference laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease and amending Annex II to Council Directive 92/119/EEC as regards the European Union reference laboratory for swine vesicular disease

(notified under document C(2018) 299)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Article 1

The consortium ANSES & SCIENSANO set up by the Laboratory for Animal Health of the Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES), Maisons-Alfort, France, and the Laboratory for Exotic Viruses and Particular Diseases of the federal research centre Sciensano, Uccle, Belgium, is hereby designated as the European Union reference laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease for an undetermined period.

Article 2

In Annex II to Directive 92/119/EEC, point 6 is deleted.

Article 3

Implementing Decision 2012/767/EU is repealed with effect from 1 January 2019.

References to the repealed Implementing Decision shall be construed as references to this Decision.

Article 4

This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2019.

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.