(2) Efter direktivets artikel 6, stk. 3, kan medlemsstater, der ikke har et nationalt laboratorium med kompetence på området, som en undtagelse fra stk. 2 anvende et kompetent laboratorium i en anden medlemsstat.
(2) Paragraph 3 of the same Article lays down that by way of derogation from paragraph 2, Member States which do not have a national laboratory competent in the matter may use the services of a national laboratory with competence in the matter in another Member State.