(1)

In accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 9(1) of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006, the Commission has examined Italy’s application for the approval of amendments to the specification for the protected geographical indication ‘Limone di Sorrento’ registered in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 2400/96 (2), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2446/2000 (3).

(2)

Since the amendments in question are not minor within the meaning of Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006, the Commission published the amendment application in the Official Journal of the European Union (4), as required by the first subparagraph of Article 6(2) of that Regulation. As no statement of objection within the meaning of Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 has been notified to the Commission, the amendments should be approved,

(1)

Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 lays down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin and Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 lays down specific requirements concerning hygiene rules for food of animal origin. Implementing measures for those Regulations as regards recognised testing methods for marine biotoxins are set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 of 5 December 2005 laying down implementing measures for certain products under Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and for the organisation of official controls under Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, derogating from Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Regulations (EC) No 853/2004 and (EC) No 854/2004 (3). It is necessary to modify those implementing measures in the light of new scientific evidence.

(2)

In July 2006 the Commission requested the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to provide a scientific opinion to assess the current limits and methods of analysis with regard to human health for various marine biotoxins as established in the Community legislation, including new emerging toxins. The last of a series of opinions was published on 24 July 2009.

(3)

The mouse bioassay (MBA) and the rat bioassay (RBA) are the official methods for the detection of lipophilic biotoxins. The Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain of EFSA noted that these bioassays have shortcomings and are not considered an appropriate tool for control purposes because of the high variability in results, the insufficient detection capability and the limited specificity.

(4)

Recently developed alternatives to the biological methods for the determination of the marine biotoxins with lower limits of detection (LOD) have successfully been tested in prevalidation studies.

(5)

A liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was validated under the coordination of the European Union Reference Laboratory on marine biotoxins (EU-RL) in an inter-laboratory validation study carried out by the Member States. This method is publicly available for consultation in the web page of the EU-RL (http://www.aesan.msps.es/en/CRLMB/web/home.shtml). This validated technique of liquid chromatography (LC) mass spectrometry (MS) should be applied as the reference method for the detection of lipophilic toxins and used as matter of routine, both for the purposes of official controls at any stage of the food chain and own-checks by food business operators.

(6)

Any other recognised method, different from the liquid chromatography (LC) mass spectrometry (MS), could be applied for the detection of lipophilic toxins provided that they fulfil the method performance criteria stipulated by the EU-RL. Such methods should be intra-laboratory validated and successfully tested under a recognised proficiency test scheme. If the results are challenged, the reference method shall be the EU-RL LC-MS/MS method.

(7)

To allow Member States to adapt their methods to the chemical method, the biological methods should continue to be used for a limited period of time. After this period, the biological methods should be used not as a matter of routine and only during the periodic monitoring of production areas for detecting new or unknown marine toxins.

(8)

Therefore, Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 should be amended accordingly.

(9)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

(1)

Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 establishes a Rapid alert system for food and feed (hereinafter — ‘RASFF’), managed by the Commission and involving the Member States, the Commission and the European Food Safety Authority, to provide the control authorities with an effective tool for the notification of risks to human health deriving from food or feed. Article 50 of that Regulation sets out the scope and requirements for the RASFF to operate.

(2)

Article 51 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 requires the Commission to establish implementing measures for Article 50 of that Regulation, in particular as regards the specific conditions and procedures applicable to the transmission of notifications and supplementary information.

(3)

Member States are primarily responsible for the enforcement of the EU legislation. They perform official controls, the rules for which are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules (2). The RASFF supports the Member States’ actions by allowing the rapid exchange of information on risks posed by food or feed and on measures taken or to be taken to counter such risks.

(4)

Article 29 of Regulation EC No 183/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 January 2005 laying down requirements for feed hygiene (3) extends the scope of the RASFF to serious risks to animal health and to the environment. Therefore, the term ‘risk’ used in this Regulation is to be understood as a direct or indirect risk to human health in connection with food, food contact material or feed in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 or as a serious risk to human health, animal health or the environment in connection with feed in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 183/2005.

(5)

Rules should be established to allow the RASFF to operate correctly both in relation to cases where a serious risk within the meaning of Article 50(2) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 is identified and in relation to other cases where, even though a risk of lesser gravity or urgency is identified, an efficient exchange of information is necessary between and among the members of the RASFF network. Notifications are classified into alert, information and border rejection notifications to allow for a more efficient handling by members of the network.

(6)

For the RASFF to operate efficiently, requirements should be formulated for the procedure for transmission of the different types of notifications. Alert notifications should be transmitted and treated with priority. Border rejection notifications are particularly relevant to controls carried out at border inspection posts and designated points of entry along the European Economic Area border. Templates and data dictionaries enhance the legibility and understanding of the notifications. Flagging members of the network for certain notifications draws their attention to particular notifications ensuring thereby that they are handled quickly.

(7)

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, the Commission, the Member States and EFSA have designated contact points, which represent the members of the network in order to benefit from a correct and fast communication. In application of Article 50 of that Regulation and in order to avoid possible mistakes in the transmission of the notifications, only one designated contact point should exist for each member of the network. This contact point should facilitate the rapid transmission to a competent authority inside a member country.

(8)

In order to ensure the correct and efficient functioning of the network between its members, common rules for duties of the contact points should be established. Provisions concerning the coordinating role of the Commission should also be set out, including the verification of the notifications. In this respect, the Commission should also assist members of the network in taking appropriate measures by identifying recurrent hazards and operators reported in the notifications.

(9)

In case that, notwithstanding the checks carried out by the notifying member and by the Commission, a transmitted notification turns out to be erroneous or unfounded, then a procedure providing for either its amendment or its withdrawal from the system should be laid down.

(10)

According to paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 50 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 the Commission is required to inform third countries of certain RASFF notifications. Therefore, without prejudice to specific provisions in agreements concluded pursuant to Article 50.6 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, the Commission should ensure direct contact with food safety authorities in third countries in order to send out notifications to these third countries and at the same time ensure the exchange of relevant information with regard to these notifications and any direct or indirect risk to human health deriving from food or feed.

(11)

Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 requires the public authorities to inform the public of risks to human health inter alia. The Commission should provide summary information about the RASFF notifications transmitted and annual reports highlighting the trends in food safety issues notified through RASFF and the evolution of the network itself to inform members, stakeholders and the general public.

(12)

This Regulation has been discussed with the European Food Safety Authority.

(13)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

1.

‘network’ means the rapid alert system for the notification of a direct or indirect risk to human health deriving from food or feed, as established by Article 50 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

2.

‘member of the network’ means a Member State, the Commission, the European Food Safety Authority and any applicant country, third country or international organisation having concluded an agreement with the European Union in accordance with Article 50(6) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

3.

‘contact point’ means the designated contact point that represents the member of the network;

4.

‘alert notification’ means a notification of a risk that requires or might require rapid action in another member country;

5.

‘information notification’ means a notification of a risk that does not require rapid action in another member country;

6.

‘border rejection notification’ means a notification of a rejection of a batch, container or cargo of food or feed as referred to in Article 50(3)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

7.

‘original notification’ means an alert notification, an information notification or a border rejection notification;

8.

‘follow-up notification’ means a notification that contains additional information in relation to an original notification;

9.

‘professional operators’ means food business operators and feed business operators as defined in Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 or business operators as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4).

(a)

verify the completeness and legibility of the notification, including whether the appropriate data from the dictionaries referred to in Article 7(2) were selected;

(b)

verify the correctness of the legal basis given for the cases of non-compliance found; however an incorrect legal basis shall not prevent transmission of the notification if a risk was identified;

(c)

verify that the subject of the notification falls within the scope of the network as laid down in Article 50 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;

(d)

ensure that the essential information in the notification is provided in a language easily understandable by all members of the network;

(e)

verify compliance with the requirements laid down in this Regulation;

(f)

identify recurrences of the same professional operator and/or hazard and/or country of origin in notifications.

(a)

a summary of all alert, information and border rejection notifications, providing information on the classification and the status of the notification, the products and risks identified, the country of origin, the countries where the products were distributed, the notifying member of the network, the basis for the notification and the measures taken;

(b)

an annual report on the notifications transmitted through the network.

(1)

The representative prices and additional duties applicable to imports of white sugar, raw sugar and certain syrups for the 2010/11 marketing year are fixed by Commission Regulation (EU) No 867/2010 (3). These prices and duties have been last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 13/2011 (4).

(2)

The data currently available to the Commission indicate that those amounts should be amended in accordance with the rules and procedures laid down in Regulation (EC) No 951/2006,

(1)

A case of foot-and-mouth disease (‘FMD’) has been detected in a wild boar in Burgas region in the South-East of Bulgaria within a zone of reinforced surveillance along the border with Turkey.

(2)

The FMD situation in Bulgaria is liable to endanger the herds of other Member States in view of trade in live biungulate animals and the placing on the market of certain of their products.

(3)

Bulgaria has taken measures in the framework of Council Directive 2003/85/EC of 29 September 2003 on Community measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease (3) (‘the Directive’), in particular the measures provide for in Article 85(4) of that Directive and detailed in Annex XVIII thereto.

(4)

The whole territory of Bulgaria is subject to the restrictions of Articles 2, 4, 5, 6, 8b and 11 of Commission Decision 2008/855/EC of 3 November 2008 concerning animal health control measures relating to classical swine fever in certain Member States (4). However, being listed in Part II of Annex I to that Decision allows Bulgaria to dispatch under certain health conditions fresh pig meat and meat preparations and products produced from such meat.

(5)

The disease situation in Bulgaria makes it necessary to reinforce the control measures for FMD taken by the competent authorities in Bulgaria.

(6)

It is appropriate to define as a permanent measure the high and low risk areas in the affected Member State and to provide for a prohibition on the dispatch of susceptible animals from the high and low risk areas and on the dispatch of products derived from susceptible animals from the high risk area. The Decision should also provide for the rules applicable to the dispatch from those areas of safe products that either had been produced before the restrictions, from raw material sourced from outside the restricted areas or that had undergone a treatment proven effective in inactivating possible foot-and-mouth disease virus.

(7)

The size of the defined risk areas is a direct function of the outcome of tracing of possible contacts to the infected holding and takes into account the possibility to implement sufficient controls on the movement of animals and products. At this point of time and based on information provided by Bulgaria, the whole of Burgas region should currently remain a high risk area.

(8)

The prohibition of dispatch should only cover products derived from animals of susceptible species coming from or obtained from animals originating in the high risk areas listed in Annex I and should not affect transit through these areas of such products coming from or obtained from animals originating in other areas.

(9)

Council Directive 64/432/EEC (5) concerns animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine.

(10)

Council Directive 91/68/EEC (6) concerns animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in ovine and caprine animals.

(11)

Council Directive 92/65/EEC of 13 July 1992 laying down animal health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of animals, semen, ova and embryos not subject to animal health requirements laid down in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A(I) to Directive 90/425/EEC (7) concerns, amongst others, trade in other biungulates and in semen, ova and embryos of sheep and goats, and in embryos of porcine animals.

(12)

Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (8) concerns, amongst others, the health conditions for the production and marketing of fresh meat, minced meat, mechanically separated meat, meat preparations, farmed game meat, meat products, including treated stomachs, bladders and intestines, and dairy products.

(13)

Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption (9) concerns, amongst others, the health marking of food of animal origin.

(14)

Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption (10) provides for specific treatment of meat products that ensure inactivation of the FMD virus in products of animal origin.

(15)

Commission Decision 2001/304/EC of 11 April 2001 on marking and use of certain animal products in relation to Decision 2001/172/EC concerning certain protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom (11) concerns a specific health mark to be applied to certain products of animal origin that shall be restricted to the national market. It is appropriate to lay down in a separate Annex a similar marking in the case of FMD in Bulgaria.

(16)

Council Directive 92/118/EEC (12) lays down animal health and public health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of products not subject to the said requirements laid down in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A(I) to Directive 89/662/EEC and, as regards pathogens, to Directive 90/425/EEC.

(17)

Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption (13) provides for a range of treatments of animal by-products suitable to inactivate the FMD virus.

(18)

Council Directive 88/407/EEC (14) lays down the animal health requirements applicable to intra-Community trade in and imports of deep-frozen semen of domestic animals of the bovine species.

(19)

Council Directive 89/556/EEC (15) concerns the animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in and imports from third countries of embryos of domestic animals of the bovine species.

(20)

Council Directive 90/429/EEC (16) lays down the animal health requirements applicable to intra-Community trade in and imports of semen of domestic animals of the porcine species.

(21)

The model health certificates for trade within the Union in semen, ova and embryos of animals of the ovine and caprine species and in ova and embryos of animals of the porcine species are laid down in Commission Decision 2010/470/EU of 26 August 2010 laying down model health certificates for trade within the Union in semen, ova and embryos of animals of the equine, ovine and caprine species and in ova and embryos of animals of the porcine species (17).

(22)

Council Decision 2009/470/EC of 25 May 2009 on expenditure in the veterinary field (18) provides for a mechanism to compensate affected holdings for losses incurred as a result of disease control measures.

(23)

In so far as medicinal products defined in Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to veterinary medicinal products (19), Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use (20), and Directive 2001/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the implementation of good clinical practice in the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use (21) no longer fall under the scope of Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 they should be excluded from animal health related restrictions set up by this Decision.

(24)

Article 6 of Commission Decision 2007/275/EC of 17 April 2007 concerning lists of animals and products to be subject to controls at border inspection posts under Council Directives 91/496/EEC and 97/78/EC (22) provides for a derogation from the veterinary checks for certain products containing animal products. It is appropriate to allow dispatch from the high risk areas of such products under a simplified certification regime.

(25)

Member States other than Bulgaria should support the disease control measures carried out in the affected areas by ensuring that live susceptible animals are not consigned to those areas.

(26)

To better understand the epidemiological situation and to facilitate the detection of possible infection, it is necessary to enforce a prolonged standstill for livestock in the Member State concerned while granting the possibility for slaughter and the transport of equidae under controlled conditions.

(27)

Pending the meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health and in collaboration with the Member State concerned the Commission should take interim protection measures relating to FMD in Bulgaria.

(28)

The situation shall be reviewed at the meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health scheduled for 11-12 January 2011, and the measures adapted where necessary,

(a)

not produced in Bulgaria and remained in their original packaging indicating the country of origin of the products; or

(b)

produced in an approved establishment situated in the areas listed in Annex I from pre-processed products not originating from those areas, which:

(1)

Commission Decision 2010/89/EU of 9 February 2010 on transitional measures concerning the application of certain structural requirements of Regulations (EC) No 852/2004 and (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council to certain establishments for meat, fishery products and egg products and cold stores in Romania (3) limits the application of certain structural requirements laid down in those Regulations to certain establishments and cold stores in that Member State. Those transitional measures apply until 31 December 2010.

(2)

Decision 2010/89/EU also provides that products produced or stored in the establishments and stores listed in Annexes I to IV thereto are only to be placed on the domestic market or used for further processing in the establishments

(3)

In October 2010, Romania informed the Commission that following an evaluation carried out by their veterinary services, certain establishments listed in that Decision finalised their upgrading programme and have been approved and some establishments have been closed. Accordingly, it is necessary to update the lists set out in the Annexes to Decision 2010/89/EU. The Annexes to that Decision should therefore be amended accordingly.

(4)

Romania estimates that of the 117 establishments concerned by the upgrading programmes, 36 of the meat establishments, three of the fishery product establishments and one cold store will not be able to complete their programmes before 31 December 2010, even though they are at an advanced level of compliance.

(5)

Romania estimates that the establishments concerned should be in full compliance with the relevant structural requirements laid down in Regulations (EC) No 852/2004 and (EC) No 853/2004 by 31 December 2011. In light of the ongoing structural improvements, it is necessary to prolong the period of application of the transitional measures provided for in Decision 2010/89/EU until that date.

(6)

The situation in that Member State should be reviewed before 31 December 2011. Therefore, Romania should submit a report to the Commission by 31 October 2011 regarding progress made in the upgrading of the concerned establishments and cold stores.

(7)

Accordingly, the period of application of Decision 2010/89/EU should be prolonged until 31 December 2011.

(8)

In addition, in order to ensure the continuity of the transitional measures and prevent any disruption in the industry, this Decision should apply from 1 January 2011.

(9)

Decision 2010/89/EU should therefore be amended accordingly.

(10)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

1.

in Article 2, the date ‘31 December 2010’ is replaced by ‘31 December 2011’;

2.

Article 3 is amended as follows:

3.

in Article 4(1), the introductory phrase is replaced by the following:

4.

in Article 5(2), the date ‘31 October 2010’ is replaced by ‘31 October 2011’;

5.

in Article 6, the date ‘31 December 2010’ is replaced by ‘31 December 2011’;

6.

the Annexes are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.

(1)

Decision ECB/2005/11 of 17 November 2005 on the distribution of the income of the European Central Bank on euro banknotes in circulation to the national central banks of the participating Member States (1) needs to be substantially amended to take account of the distribution of the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) income arising from securities purchased in accordance with Decision ECB/2010/5 of 14 May 2010 establishing a securities markets programme (2). It should be recast in the interests of clarity.

(2)

Decision ECB/2010/29 of 13 December 2010 on the issue of euro banknotes (3) establishes the allocation of euro banknotes in circulation to the NCBs in proportion to their paid-up shares in the ECB’s capital. Article 4 of Decision ECB/2010/29 and the Annex to that Decision allocates to the ECB 8 % of the total value of euro banknotes in circulation. The ECB holds intra-Eurosystem claims on NCBs in proportion to their shares in the subscribed capital key, for a value equivalent to the value of euro banknotes that it issues.

(3)

Under Article 2(2) of Decision ECB/2010/23 of 25 November 2010 on the allocation of monetary income of the national central banks of Member States whose currency is the euro (4), the intra-Eurosystem balances on euro banknotes in circulation are remunerated at the reference rate. Under Article 2(3) of Decision ECB/2010/23, this remuneration is settled by TARGET2 payments.

(4)

Recital 7 to Decision ECB/2010/23 states that the income accruing to the ECB on the remuneration of its intra-Eurosystem claims on NCBs related to its share of euro banknotes in circulation should in principle be distributed to the NCBs in accordance with the decisions of the Governing Council, in proportion to their shares in the subscribed capital key in the same financial year it accrues.

(5)

In the same manner the ECB’s income arising from securities purchased under the securities markets programme (SMP) should in principle be distributed to the NCBs in proportion to their shares in the subscribed capital key in the same financial year it accrues.

(6)

In distributing the ECB’s income on euro banknotes in circulation and the ECB’s income arising from SMP securities, the ECB should take into account an estimate of its financial result for the year that makes due allowance for the need to allocate funds to a provision for foreign exchange rate, interest rate, credit and gold price risks, and for the availability of provisions that may be released to offset anticipated expenses.

(7)

In determining the amount of the ECB’s net profit to be transferred to the general reserve fund pursuant to Article 33.1 of the Statute of the ESCB, the Governing Council should consider that any part of that profit which corresponds to income on euro banknotes in circulation and income arising from SMP securities should be distributed to the NCBs in full,

(a)

‘NCB’ means the national central bank of a Member State whose currency is the euro;

(b)

‘intra-Eurosystem balances on euro banknotes in circulation’ means the claims and liabilities arising between an NCB and the ECB and between an NCB and the other NCBs as a result of the application of Article 4 of Decision ECB/2010/29;

(c)

‘ECB’s income on euro banknotes in circulation’ means the income accruing to the ECB on the remuneration of its intra-Eurosystem claims on NCBs related to its share of euro banknotes in circulation as a result of the application of Article 2 of Decision ECB/2010/23;

(d)

‘ECB’s income arising from SMP securities’ means the net income arising from securities purchased by the ECB under the SMP in accordance with Decision ECB/2010/5.

1.

The Governing Council shall decide before the end of the financial year whether all or part of the ECB’s income arising from SMP securities and, if necessary, all or part of the ECB’s income on euro banknotes in circulation should be retained to the extent necessary to ensure that the amount of the distributed income does not exceed the ECB’s net profit for that year. Any such decision shall be taken where, on the basis of a reasoned estimate prepared by the Executive Board, the Governing Council expects that the ECB will have an overall annual loss or will make an annual net profit that is less than the estimated amount of its income on euro banknotes in circulation and the estimated amount of its income arising from SMP securities.

2.

The Governing Council may decide before the end of the financial year to transfer all or part of the ECB’s income arising from SMP securities and, if necessary, all or part of the ECB’s income on euro banknotes in circulation to a provision for foreign exchange rate, interest rate, credit and gold price risks.

(1)

Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 establishes a new common framework for business registers of the multinational enterprise groups’ data exclusively for statistical purposes in order to maintain the development of business registers in a harmonised framework.

(2)

An exchange of confidential data between the Commission and national central banks of the Member States whose currency is the euro (hereinafter the ‘NCBs’), and between the Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB), should contribute to ensuring the quality of multinational enterprise group information in the Union.

(3)

In order to establish the format, security and confidentiality measures and procedures concerning the data transmitted from the Commission to the NCBs and the ECB, the Commission has adopted Regulation (EU) No 1097/2010 implementing Regulation (EC) No 177/2008.

(4)

In view of the separate governance structures of the European System of Central Banks and the European Statistical System (ESS), it is necessary to define the format, security and confidentiality measures, and procedures concerning the data that the ECB and NCBs receive from the Commission and the data transmitted from the NCBs to the national statistical institutes and other national authorities which participate in the ESS as defined in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities (5).

(5)

The provisions of this Decision may be extended to apply to the central banks of Member States whose currency is not the euro by means of an agreement between those central banks and the ECB,