
Article 1 
The following consortium is designated as a European Union reference laboratory for pests of plants on insects and mites responsible for supporting horizontal activities of the Commission and of the Member States in the area of plant health:

 Consortium led by the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES, Plant Health Laboratory, Entomology and Invasive Plants Unit, 755 avenue du campus Agropolis, CS 30016, 34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez cedex, France),
and also composed of:
the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES, Institute for Sustainable Plant Production, Spargelfeldstraße 191, 1220 Vienna, Austria).
Article 2 
The following consortium is designated as a European Union Reference Laboratory for pests of plants on nematodes responsible for supporting horizontal activities of the Commission and of the Member States in the area of plant health:

 Consortium led by the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES, Plant Health Laboratory, Nematology Unit, Domaine de la Motte au Vicomte — BP 35327, 35653 Le Rheu, France),
and also composed of:
the Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO, Plant Sciences, Nematology group, Burg. Van Gansberghelaan 96, 9820 Merelbeke, Belgium).
Article 3 
The following consortium is designated as a European Union Reference Laboratory for pests of plants on bacteria responsible for supporting horizontal activities of the Commission and of the Member States in the area of plant health:
Consortium led by the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority-National Reference Centre Plant Health (NVWA-NRC, Bacteriology group, Geertjesweg, 15, 6706 EA Wageningen, The Netherlands),

 and also composed of:
— the Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO, Plant Sciences, Bacteriology group, Burg. Van Gansberghelaan 96, 9820 Merelbeke, Belgium);
— the Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification (CREA-DC (DIALAB), Laboratory of Phytopathology, Bacteriology group, via Carlo Giuseppe Bertero 22, 00156 Roma, Italy);
— the National Institute of Biology (NIB, Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, Bacteriology and Metrology Unit, Laboratory for diagnostics of bacteria, Večna pot 111, Ljubljana, Slovenia).
Article 4 
The following laboratory is designated as a European Union Reference Laboratory for pests of plants on fungi and oomycetes responsible for supporting horizontal activities of the Commission and of the Member States in the area of plant health:

 the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES, Plant Health Laboratory, Mycology Unit, Domaine de Pixérécourt, CS 400009, 54220 Malzéville, France).
Article 5 
The following consortium is designated as a European Union Reference Laboratory for pests of plants on viruses, viroids and phytoplasmas responsible for supporting horizontal activities of the Commission and of the Member States in the area of plant health.
Consortium led by the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority National Reference Centre Plant Health (NVWA-NRC, Virology group, Geertjesweg, 15, 6706 EA Wageningen, The Netherlands),

 and also composed of:
— the Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification (CREA-DC (DIALAB), Laboratory of Phytopathology, Virology group, via Carlo Giuseppe Bertero 22, 00156 Roma, Italy);
— the National Institute of Biology (NIB, Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, Microbiology Unit, Laboratory for diagnostics of viruses, viroids and phytoplasmas, Večna pot 111, Ljubljana, Slovenia).
Article 6 
The designation as European Union Reference Laboratories shall be reviewed regularly.
Article 7 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 27 March 2019.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER