L 261/42 Official Journal of the European Communities 7.10.1999 COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 9 September 1999 amending Decisions 79/491/EEC and 80/765/EEC laying down a code and standard rules for the transcription into a machine-readable form of the data of the basic surveys and the data relating to intermediate statistical surveys of areas under vines (notified under document number C(1999) 2703) (1999/661/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 357[79 of 5 February 1979 on statistical surveys of areas under vines ('), last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 2329/98 (3, and in particular Article 4(2) and (4), Article 5(5) and (6) and Article 6(4) thereof, (1)  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 35779 provides that the Member States shall submit to the Commission the results of the basic and intermediate surveys of areas under vines by geographical unit in the form of a schedule of tables; (2)  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 35779 provides that those Member States which process the results of surveys of areas under vines electronically shall submit the results to the Commission in a machine-readable form; (3)  Whereas the Commission, in Decision 79/491/EEC () relating to the basic surveys and Decision 80/ 765[EEC (% relating to the intermediate surveys has fixed and coded the geographical units into which the results of the surveys of areas under vines shall be broken down; (4)  Whereas, owing to certain changes in the geographical units within the Member States, it has proved necessary to replace Annex II of Decision 79/491/EEC and Annex () O] L 54, 5.3.1979, p. 124. () O] L 291, 30.10.1998, p. 2. () O] L 129, 28.5.1979, p. 9. () O] L 213, 16.8.1980, p. 34. II of Decision 80/765/EEC for the transmission by the Member States of the results of the basic and inter- mediate surveys of areas under vines; (5)  Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee for Agricultural Statistics, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 Owing to changes in the geographical units within the Member States, Annex II of Decision 79/491/EEC and Annex I of Decision 80/765/EEC shall be replaced by the Annex to this Decision. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 9 September 1999. For the Commission Yves-Thibault de SILGUY Member of the Commission