Setting up of a network of national reference laboratories
Article 15
1. The competent authorities shall inform the relevant EU reference laboratories of any laboratory designated as national reference laboratory in accordance with national law whose scope of designation is within the scope of designation of those EU reference laboratories. 2. Where the scope of designation of a national reference laboratory is within the scope of designation of an EU reference laboratory or a sub-network, that national reference laboratory shall be part of the corresponding network of national reference laboratories. 3. The EU reference laboratories or the sub-networks shall share relevant information and promote the use of common testing methods within their networks of national reference laboratories. 4. The EU reference laboratories shall publish on their websites lists of the national reference laboratories that form part of their network referred to in paragraph 2 and a list of the tasks of those national reference laboratories.