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[F2The following principles for methods of microbiological parameters are given either for reference, whenever a CEN/ISO method is given, or for guidance, pending the possible future adoption by the Commission of further CEN/ISO international methods for those parameters. Member States may use alternative methods, providing the provisions of Article 7(5) are met.
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F2 Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Four.
Those measures on further CEN/ISO international methods, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, inter alia , by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 12(3).]
[F1The methods for microbiological parameters are:
Escherichia coli ( E. coli ) and coliform bacteria (EN ISO 9308-1 or EN ISO 9308-2)
Enterococci (EN ISO 7899-2)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (EN ISO 16266)
enumeration of culturable microorganisms — colony count 22 °C (EN ISO 6222)
enumeration of culturable microorganisms — colony count 36 °C (EN ISO 6222)
Clostridium perfringens including spores (EN ISO 14189).]