
Article 1 
The consortium ANSES & SCIENSANO set up by the Laboratory for Animal Health of the Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES), Maisons-Alfort, France, and the Laboratory for Exotic Viruses and Particular Diseases of the federal research centre Sciensano, Uccle, Belgium, is hereby designated as the European Union reference laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease for an undetermined period.
Article 2 
In Annex II to Directive 92/119/EEC, point 6 is deleted.
Article 3 
Implementing Decision 2012/767/EU is repealed with effect from 1 January 2019.
References to the repealed Implementing Decision shall be construed as references to this Decision.
Article 4 
This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2019.
Article 5 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.