L 289/36 Official Journal of the European Communities 28.10.98 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DECISION of 19 October 1998 amending Decision 95/408/EC on the conditions for drawing up, for an interim period, provisional lists of third-country establishments from which Member States are authorised to import certain products of animal origin, fishery prod- ucts or live bivalve molluscs (98/603/EC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to Council Decision 95/408/EC of 22 June 1995 on the conditions for drawing up, for an interim period, provisional lists of third-country establishments from which Member States are authorised to import certain products of animal origin, fishery products or live bivalve molluscs (') and in particular Article 9 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (3, Whereas the interim period opened by Decision 95/ 408/EC ends on 31 December 1998; whereas, for administrative reasons, the drawing up of the lists of third-country establishments from which Member States are authorised to import certain products in accordance with the Directives on health rules applicable to those products has been delayed; Whereas, in order to prevent any disruptions in tradi- tional trade patterns, the interim period during which a simplified system may be applied to third-country estab- lishments exporting certain products of animal origin, fishery products or live bivalve molluscs should be extended, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 In Article 9 of Decision 95/408/EC the date ‘31 December 1998’ shall be replaced by ‘31 December 2000’. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Luxembourg, 19 October 1998. For the Council The President W. MOLTERER (") OJ L 243, 11. 10. 1995, p. 17. Decision as amended by Decision 97/34/EC (O] L 13, 16. 1. 1997, p. 33). () OJ C 215, 10. 7. 1998, p. 20.