14.3.2008 Official Journal of the European Union L 70/9 I (Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory) DECISIONS COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 12 March 2008 amending Decision 2003/135/EC as regards the eradication and emergency vaccination plans for classical swine fever in feral pigs in certain areas of the Linder of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) (notified under document number C(2008) 887) (Only the German and French texts are authentic) (2008/220/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, the Linder of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine- Westphalia. Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, (3)  That information indicates that classical swine fever in feral pigs has been eradicated in certain areas of those Lander. Accordingly, the eradication and emergency vacci- Having regard to Council Directive 2001/89/EC of 23 October nation plans for classical swine fever in feral pigs no 2001 on Community measures for the control of classical swine longer need to be applied in those areas. fever (), and in particular Article 16(1) and 20(2) thereof, Whereas: (4)  Decision 2003/135/EC should therefore be amended accordingly. (1)  Commission Decision 2003/135/EC of 27 February 2003 on the approval of the plans for the eradication of classical swine fever and the emergency vaccination of (5)  The measures provided for in this Decision are in feral pigs against classical swine fever in Germany, in the accordance with the opinion of the Standing Linder of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland (3 was adopted as one of a number of measures to combat classical swine fever. HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: (2)  Germany has informed the Commission about the recent evolution of that disease in feral pigs in certain areas of () O] L 316, 1.12.2001, p. 5. Directive as last amended by Article 1 Commission Decision 2007/729/EC (O] L 294, 13.11.2007, p. 26). . . . () OJ L 53, 28.2.2003, p. 47. Decision as last amended by Decision The Annex to Decision 2003/135/EC is replaced by the text in 2007/135/EC (O] L 57, 24.2.2007, p. 20). the Annex to this Decision.