15.6.2007 Official Journal of the European Union L 155/3 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 656/2007 of 14 June 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 586/2001 on implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards the definition of main industrial groupings (MIGS) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics ('), and in particular Article 3 and Article 17(c) thereof, Whereas: (1) The definition of main industrial groupings (MIGS) laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 586/2001 (?) is based on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE) (3). A new version of NACE (NACE Rev. 2) was introduced by Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006, which also specifies that short-term statistics governed by Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 shall be produced in accordance with NACE Rev. 2 from 1 January 2009 onwards. The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 586/2001 is amended as follows: 1. in Articles 1 and 2 all references to NACE Rev. 1’ are replaced by ‘NACE Rev. 2’; 2. in Article 3 ‘not later than three months after the present Regulation enters into force’ is replaced by ‘as from 1 January 2009’; 3. the Annex is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply as from 1 January 2009. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 14 June 2007. (') OJ L 162, 5.6.1998, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation ( ( EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1). () O L 86, 27.3.2001, p. 11. () O] L 293, 24.10.1990, p. 1. For the Commission Joaquin ALMUNIA Member of the Commission