Table 2. Information on national evaluations providing data to the Interbull
routine evaluation for milk somatic cells, as provided by participating countries
					Proof
Country	Breed(s)*	Parities	h2	Model	unit**	Expression***
Australia	AYS GUE HOL JER	3	.200	AM TD	SCC(10)	BV****
Belgium(1)	HOL	3	.135	AM TD	SCS(2)	BV
Canada	AYS	3	.270	AM TD	SCS(2)	TA
	BSW	3	.250	-"-	-"-	-"-
	GUE	3	.280	-"-	-"-	-"-
	HOL	3	.272	-"-	-"-	-"-
	JER	3	.270	-"-	-"-	-"-
Denmark	AYS HOL RHOL JER	1	.110	SM MT	SCC	TA
Estonia	HOL	3	.120	AM TD	SCS(2)	RBV(-)
Finland	AYS HOL	3	.170	AM TD	SCS(e)	RBV(-)
France	BSW HOL RHOL	3	.150	AM	SCS(2)	RBV(-)
Germany(2)	HOL AYS	3	.230	AM TD	SCS(2)	BV
Hungary	HOL	3	.150	AM	SCC(2)	RBV
Israel	HOL	5	.433	AM MT	SCS(2)	TA
Italy	HOL	1	.080	AM TD	SCS(2)	RBV(-)
Japan	HOL	1	.082	AM TD	SCS(2)	RBV(-)
Netherlands(3)	BSW HOL JER	3	.350	AM TD	SCS(2)	RTA(-)
Spain	HOL	5	.175	AM	SCS(2)	RBV(-)
Sweden	AYS HOL	1	.080	SM	SCC(10)	RBV(-)
Switzerland	BSW	3	.276	AM TD	SCS(2)	BV
	HOL	3	.310	AM TD	SCS(2)	BV
	RHOL	3	.200	AM TD	SCC(2)	BV
United Kingdom	AYS GUE HOL JER	5	.110	AM	SCC(e)	TA
United States	AYS BSW GUE HOL JER	5	.100	AM	SCS(2)	TA
*    RHOL = Red Holstein
**   log-base used indicated within parenthesis
***  reversed scale, i.e. high values are desirable, indicated within parenthesis
**** The official BVs were only multiplied by 10 for AUS instead of 1000 to fit
the 036 file format
(1)  Walloon part of Belgium
(2)  Germany, Austria and Luxembourg
(3)  The Netherlands and the Flemish part of Belgium