L 144/28 Official Journal of the European Communities 17.6.2000 COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 8 December 1999 on the measure which the Netherlands intends to implement concerning rationalisation of pig assembly centres (notified under document number C(1999) 5209) (Only the Dutch text is authentic) (2000/386/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 88(2) thereof, Having in accordance with that provision given notice to inter- ested parties to submit their comments ('), and in the light of those comments, Whereas: I. Procedure The Netherlands notified the Commission of the above measure by letter of 6 August 1998 (registered as received on 10 August 1998). The Netherlands provided additional information to the Commission by letter of 29 September 1998 (registered as received on 5 October 1998) and by letter of 3 November 1998 (registered as received on 5 November 1998). Further information was provided at a meeting with Dutch Government represen- tatives on 7 December 1998. By letter of 3 February 1999 the Commission notified the Netherlands that it had decided to initiate the proce- dure under Article 88(2) of the EC Treaty. () O] C 108, 17.4.1999, p. 5. () ST e 2o PN AN ) LLeeeeee The Commission's decision to initiate the procedure was published in the Official Journal of the European Communi- ties (). The Commission invited interested parties to submit their comments on the measure. Having received interested parties'’ comments, the Commission forwarded these to the Netherlands for reaction and received the Netherlands' response by letter of 30 July 1999. II. Description of the measure The measure is intended to accompany the more strin- gent hygiene rules which have been introduced for pig assembly centres in order to prevent the spread of class- ical swine fever. The amended rules serve partly to implement Council Directive 64[432/EEC (3, as amended by Directive 97/12/EC (’), but also contain additional requirements. In accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 10(1) of Council Directive 90/ 425[EEC of 26 June 1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products with a view to the completion of the internal market (¥, as last amended by Directive 92/118/EEC (%), the hygiene meas- ures were notified as temporary protection measures. Since the Netherlands wishes to make the measures permanent, they were also notified (No 98/0392/NL) as a technical specification under Council Directive 83/ 189/EEC of 28 March 1983 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (%), as consolidated by Euro- pean Parliament and Council Directive 98/34/EC () and subsequently amended by Directive 98/48/EC (3). 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64. 109, 25.4.1997, p. 1. 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29. 62, 15.3.1993, p. 49. 109, 26.4.1983, p. 8. 204, 21.7.1998, p. 37. 217, 5.8.1998, p. 26. | ol onlll onlll onll el anlll ol