L 57/28 Official Journal of the European Union 1.3.2008 COMMISSION DECISION of 25 February 2008 amending Decision 96/550/EC authorising methods for grading pig carcases in Finland (notified under document number C(2008) 692) (Only the Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2008/177[EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3220/84 of 13 November 1984 determining the Community scale for grading pig carcases ('), and in particular Article 5(2) thereof, Whereas: (1)  Commission Decision 96/550/EC (%) authorises two methods (Hennessy grading probe (HGP4), Intrasco- pe/Optical probe) for grading pig carcases in Finland. (2)  Finland has asked the Commission to authorise the update of one formula and the utilisation of one new method of grading pig carcases, and has presented the results of its dissection trials in the second part of the protocol provided for in Article 3(3) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2967/85 of 24 October 1985 laying down detailed rules for the application of the Community scale for grading pig carcases (?). (3)  Examination of this request has revealed that the conditions for authorising these grading methods are fulfilled. () OJ L 301, 20.11.1984, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 3513/93 (O] L 320, 22.12.1993, p. 5). ( O] L 236, 18.9.1996, p. 47. Decision as amended by Decision 2005/611/EC (O] L 210, 12.8.2005, p. 44). (®) OJ L 285, 25.10.1985, p. 39. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 1197/2006 (O] L 217, 8.8.2006, p. 6). (4)  Decision 96/550/EC should therefore be amended accordingly. (5)  The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Pigmeat, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Atticle 1 Decision 96/550/EC is amended as follows: 1. in the first paragraph of Article 1 the following indent is added: ‘— the apparatus called “AutoFom” and the assessment methods related thereto, details of which are given in Part 3 of the Annex’; 2. the Annex is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision. Atrticle 2 This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Finland. Done at Brussels, 25 February 2008. For the Commission Mariann FISCHER BOEL Member of the Commission