# L_2017189EN.01005101.xml

| 20.7.2017 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 189/51 |
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20.7.2017

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 189/51

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 32/2016

of 5 February 2016

amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1315]

THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:

| (1) | Commission Implementing Decision 2014/895/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating the information referred to in Article 21(3) of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. |
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(1)

Commission Implementing Decision 2014/895/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating the information referred to in Article 21(3) of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

| (2) | Commission Implementing Decision 2014/896/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating information from Member States on the implementation of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. |
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(2)

Commission Implementing Decision 2014/896/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating information from Member States on the implementation of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

| (3) | Annex XX to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly, |
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(3)

Annex XX to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annex XX to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:

| (1) | the text of point 23aa (deleted) is replaced by the following:

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  32014 D 0896: Commission Implementing Decision 2014/896/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating information from Member States on the implementation of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (OJ L 355, 12.12.2014, p. 55).’; |
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(1)

the text of point 23aa (deleted) is replaced by the following:

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  32014 D 0896: Commission Implementing Decision 2014/896/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating information from Member States on the implementation of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (OJ L 355, 12.12.2014, p. 55).’;

| (2) | the following point is inserted after point 23c (deleted):






  ‘23d. | 32014 D 0895: Commission Implementing Decision 2014/895/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating the information referred to in Article 21(3) of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (OJ L 355, 12.12.2014, p. 51).’ |
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(2)

the following point is inserted after point 23c (deleted):

‘23d.

Article 2

The texts of Implementing Decisions 2014/895/EU and 2014/896/EU in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on 6 February 2016, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1), or on the day of the entry into force of Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 193/2015 of 10 July 2015 (3), whichever is the later.

Article 4

This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.

Done at Brussels, 5 February 2016.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Claude MAERTEN

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(1)  
  OJ L 355, 12.12.2014, p. 51.

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(2)  
  OJ L 355, 12.12.2014, p. 55.

2

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.

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(3)  
  OJ L 8, 12.1.2017, p. 29.

3

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