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Decision 2000/258/EC designates the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (‘ANSES’) in Nancy, France, as the specific institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines.

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Decision 2000/258/EC provides, among other things, that the ANSES is to appraise laboratories in third countries that have applied for approval to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines.

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The competent authority of Brazil has submitted an application for the approval of the laboratory ‘Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná’. The ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 5 January 2021 for this laboratory.

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The competent authority of Brazil has submitted an application for re-approval of two laboratories: the ‘TECSA laboratórios LTDA’ and the ‘Instituto Pasteur ’. The ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 5 January 2021 for these laboratories.

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The competent authority of Cambodia has submitted an application for the approval of the laboratory ‘Pasteur Institute of Cambodia’. The ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 5 January 2021 for this laboratory.

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The competent authority of China has submitted an application for the approval of the laboratory ‘Technical Centre for animal, plant and food inspection and quarantine of Shanghai customs’. The ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 5 January 2021 for this laboratory.

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The competent authority of Mexico has submitted an application for re-approval of the laboratory ‘SADER/SENASICA’. The ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 5 January 2021 for this laboratory.

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The competent authority of South Africa has submitted an application for re-approval of the laboratory ‘Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute’. The ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 5 January 2021 for this laboratory.

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The competent authority of Tunisia has submitted an application for the approval of the laboratory ‘Pasteur Institute of Tunis’. The ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 5 January 2021 for this laboratory.

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The competent authority of Ukraine has submitted an application for the approval of the laboratory ‘State Scientific Control Institute of Biotechnology and Strains of Microorganisms’. The ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 5 January 2021 for this laboratory.

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The competent authority of the United Kingdom has submitted an application for the approval of the laboratories ‘APHA Weybridge’ and ‘BioBest Laboratories Ltd’. The ANSES has established and submitted to the Commission a favourable appraisal report dated 5 January 2021 for these laboratories.

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These laboratories should therefore be authorised to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines in dogs, cats and ferrets.

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In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, the authorisation of the application submitted by the competent authority of the United Kingdom does not prevent a national reference laboratory located in a Member State from fulfilling the functions of a national reference laboratory in respect of the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland).

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The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,

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