Amendments to Directive 92/66/EEC
Article 16
Directive 92/66/EEC is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 14 shall be amended as follows: (a) paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following: ‘2. The national laboratories referred to in paragraph 1 shall be responsible for coordinating standards and methods of diagnosis, use of reagents and testing of vaccines.’; (b) in paragraph 3, the introductory phrase shall be replaced by the following: ‘3. The national laboratories referred to in paragraph 1 shall be responsible for coordinating the standards and diagnostic methods laid down in each Newcastle-disease diagnostic laboratory within the Member State. To this end:’; (c) paragraph 4 shall be replaced by the following: ‘4. The national laboratories referred to in paragraph 1 shall liaise with the Community reference laboratory referred to in Article 15. 5. Member States shall maintain up-to-date lists of the national laboratories or institutes referred to in paragraph 1 and make them available to the other Member States and to the public. Detailed rules for the uniform application of this paragraph may be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 25(2).’; 2. Annex IV shall be deleted.