(12)However, Decision 2000/258/EC, as amended by Council Directive 2008/73/ECnote, provides that the competent authorities of the Member States may, from 1 January 2010, authorise laboratories to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines. That Decision also provides that Member States are to draw up and keep up to date a list of those laboratories that they have authorised and make it available to the other Member States and to the public.