L 208/54 Official Journal of the European Communities 24. 7. 98 COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 9 July 1998 implementing Council Directive 89/662/EEC as regards information on veterinary checks (notified under document number C(1998) 1741) (Text with EEA relevance) (98/470/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra- Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal market ('), as last amended by Directive 92/118/EEC (3), and in particular Article 16(3) thereof, Whereas, so that basic information about veterinary checks carried out in the Member States pursuant to Directive 89/662/EEC can be examined in the Standing Veterinary Committee, the Commission needs to have prompt and reliable information available; Whereas, in order to establish a rational approach to the results of checks, the information should be presented for each sector of activity covered by veterinary legislation; Whereas, for practical reasons, such information should be transmitted to the Commission in electronic form; Whereas, so that the results can be expressed coherently, the requisite information should be transmitted in con- solidated form for each sector for a given Member State as a whole by the competent national authority; Whereas, to ensure that the whole system is reliable, account should be taken only of information obtained from official checks carried out by the competent author- ities in the Member States; Whereas provision should be made in the first instance for information on fresh meat; whereas this Decision should be supplemented subsequently to include all the sectors covered by veterinary legislation; () OJ L 395, 30. 12. 1989, p. 13. () OJ L 62, 15. 3. 1993, p. 49. 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 Member States shall send the Commission the informa- tion provided for in Article 16(1) of Directive 89/662/EEC for each sector of activity. The sectors of activity, corres- ponding to those provided for in the veterinary legisla- tion, shall be as set out in Annex I. Article 2 For each sector of activity, the information shall take account of official checks carried out and of the results obtained at origin and at destination, and shall be presented for each Member State for every calendar year. Article 3 1. The information shall be presented in accordance with an appropriate model for each sector. 2. The model for the fresh meat sector shall be as set out in Annex IIL Article 4 The information shall be forwarded to the Commission in electronic form.