21. 8. 90 Official Journal of the Buropean Communities No L 227/39 COMMISSION DECISION® of 25 July 1990 laying down the codes for the notification of animal diseases (90/442/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN. COMMUNITIES, Having regard to-the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, - Having regard to Council Directive 82/894/EEC of 21 December 1982 on the notification of animal “diseases within the -Community ('), as last amended by Commis- sion Decision 90/134/EEC (3), and in particular-Article § thereof, . Whereas Commission - Decision .84/90/EEC (®), as last amended by Decision 89/163/EEC (%), lays down the form in which animal diseases are to be notified ; Whereas the Commission’s Decision of 30 January 1985 (%), as last amended by Decision of 3 April 1990 (¥), lays down the codes for the notification of animal diseases ; Whereas the codes assigned to the regions of Spain and Portugal and to the ‘RVV-Kring’ in the Netherlands should be included ; Whereas in the interests of clarity the Decision of 30 January 1985 should therefore be repealed and a consoli- dated text adopted ; Whereas it is necessary to take into account the essential requirements which applied when the Decision of 30 January 1985 was adopted, namely the confidentiality of - - the information to be supplied, the need -to transmit information electronically and to provide the information required- under Council- Directive 80/217/EEC of 22 January :1980 introducing Community measures for the control of classical. swine fever(’), as last amended -by Directive 87/486/EEC (%); - Whereas ‘in order to protect the confidentiality of the transmitted information, the annexes to this Decision- should not be published; Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion: of the Standing Veterinary Committee, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1. For the purpose of animal disease notification procedures, . information shall be transmitted using the codes laid down in Annexes 1 to 11 to this Decision. Article 2 The Decision of 30 January 1985 is hereby repealed. Article 3 This Decision shall apply from 1. August 1990. Article 4 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done. at Brussels, 25 July 1990. For the Commission Ray: MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission () OJ No L 378, 31. 12.1982, p. 8. () OJ No L 76, 22. 3. 1990, p. 23. () OJ No L 50, 21. 2. 1984, p. 10. () OF No L 61, 4. 3. 1989, p. 49. () Not published. (9 Not published. () OJ No L 47, 21. 2. 1980, p. 11. () OJ No L 280, 3. 10. 1987, p. 21.