♦ 04 May 2015 ♦

A panel of 9 brain samples will be sent to all laboratories on the same day and under the same conditions. Date of shipment is 1st June 2015. Laboratories which have sent all documents (import permit when needed, and unilateral commitment fully initialled, signed and stamped) before this date will receive the panel. In order to respect the time schedule and to have all results included in the final report, the test will have to be undertaken in the course of June and results will have to be sent back to the EURL for rabies on 1st July at the latest, along with the answers given on the online questionnaires. As usual, there will be one questionnaire for each technique. Participants will be invited to fill one questionnaire per each tested technique. The final report should be issued in early Autumn 2015.