
Article 1 
For the purposes of Article 3(9) of Directive 2006/7/EC International Standard ISO 17994:2004(E) ‘Water quality — Criteria for establishing equivalence between microbiological methods’ shall be specified as the standard on the equivalence of microbiological methods.
Article 2 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 21 January 2009.
For the Commission
Stavros DIMAS
Member of the Commission