
Article 1 

1. The following consortium shall be designated as a European Union Reference Centre for Animal Welfare responsible for supporting horizontal activities of the Commission and of the Member States in the area of welfare requirements for poultry and other small farmed animals:NameConsortium led by Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l’Alimentation (France), and also composed of Institut de Recerca I Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (Spain), Aarhus Universitet – Institut for Husdyrvidenskab (Denmark), and Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna (Italy)Address14 rue Pierre et Marie Curie94701 Maisons-Alfort CedexFRANCE
2. The designation shall be reviewed every five years from the day of application of this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2020.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 4 October 2019.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER