Judgment_paragraph 5 · É. R., O. O., J. R., A. R., B. P. R. and Others v Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities (T-138/03)

5Thus, Commission Decision 89/469/EEC of 28 July 1989 concerning certain protection measures relating to BSE in the United Kingdom (OJ 1989 L 225, p. 51) introduced a number of restrictions on intra-Community trade in bovine animals born in the United Kingdom before July 1988. That decision was amended by Commission Decision 90/59/EEC of 7 February 1990 (OJ 1990 L 41, p. 23), which extended the ban on exporting bovine animals from the United Kingdom to include any bovine animal over the age of six months. Commission Decision 90/261/EEC of 8 June 1990 amending Decision 89/469 and Decision 90/200/EEC concerning additional requirements for some tissues and organs with respect to BSE (OJ 1990 L 46, p. 29) provided that observance of that ban was to be guaranteed by the affixation to the animals of a special mark and by the use of a system of computer records in order to enable animals to be identified. Furthermore, Commission Decision 90/134/EEC of 6 March 1990 (OJ 1990 L 76, p. 23) added BSE to the list of diseases notifiable under Council Directive 82/894/EEC of 21 December 1982 on the notification of animal diseases within the Community (OJ 1982 L 378, p. 58).