# L_2020068EN.01006201.xml

| 5.3.2020 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 68/62 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |

5.3.2020

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 68/62

---

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 310/2019

of 13 December 2019

amending Annex IX (Financial Services) to the EEA Agreement [2020/328]

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 (EU) 2019/1276 of 29 July 2019 repealing Commission Implementing Decision 2012/627/EU on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Australia as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(1)

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1276 of 29 July 2019 repealing Commission Implementing Decision 2012/627/EU on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Australia as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

| (2) | Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1277 of 29 July 2019 repealing Implementing Decision 2012/630/EU on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Canada as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(2)

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1277 of 29 July 2019 repealing Implementing Decision 2012/630/EU on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Canada as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

| (3) | Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1278 of 29 July 2019 repealing Implementing Decision 2014/248/EU on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Singapore as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (3) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(3)

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1278 of 29 July 2019 repealing Implementing Decision 2014/248/EU on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Singapore as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (3) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

| (4) | Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1279 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of the United States of America as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (4) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(4)

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1279 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of the United States of America as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (4) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

| (5) | Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1280 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Mexico as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (5) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(5)

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1280 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Mexico as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (5) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

| (6) | Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1281 of 29 July 2019 repealing Implementing Decision 2014/245/EU on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Brazil as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (6) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(6)

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1281 of 29 July 2019 repealing Implementing Decision 2014/245/EU on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Brazil as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (6) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

| (7) | Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1282 of 29 July 2019 repealing Implementing Decision 2014/246/EU on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Argentina as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (7) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(7)

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1282 of 29 July 2019 repealing Implementing Decision 2014/246/EU on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Argentina as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (7) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

| (8) | Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1283 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Japan as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (8) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(8)

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1283 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Japan as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (8) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

| (9) | Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1284 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Hong Kong as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (9) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(9)

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1284 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Hong Kong as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (9) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

| (10) | Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1276 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2012/627/EU (10), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(10)

Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1276 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2012/627/EU (10), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.

| (11) | Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1277 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2012/630/EU (11), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(11)

Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1277 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2012/630/EU (11), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.

| (12) | Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1278 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2014/248/EU (12), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(12)

Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1278 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2014/248/EU (12), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.

| (13) | Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1279 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2012/628/EU (13), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(13)

Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1279 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2012/628/EU (13), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.

| (14) | Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1280 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2014/247/EU (14), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(14)

Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1280 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2014/247/EU (14), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.

| (15) | Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1281 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2014/245/EU (15), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(15)

Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1281 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2014/245/EU (15), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.

| (16) | Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1282 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2014/246/EU (16), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(16)

Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1282 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2014/246/EU (16), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.

| (17) | Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1283 repeals Commission Decision 2010/578/EU (17), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(17)

Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1283 repeals Commission Decision 2010/578/EU (17), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.

| (18) | Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1284 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2014/249/EU (18), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement. |
| --- | --- |

(18)

Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1284 repeals Commission Implementing Decision 2014/249/EU (18), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.

| (19) | Annex IX to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly, |
| --- | --- |

(19)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

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

| (1) | The text of point 31eba (Commission Decision 2010/578/EU) is replaced by the following:

  ‘
  32019 D 1283: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1283 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Japan as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 40).’ |
| --- | --- |

(1)

The text of point 31eba (Commission Decision 2010/578/EU) is replaced by the following:

‘
  32019 D 1283: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1283 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Japan as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 40).’

| (2) | The text of point 31ebc (Commission Implementing Decision 2012/628/EU) is replaced by the following:

  ‘
  32019 D 1279: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1279 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of the United States of America as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 26).’ |
| --- | --- |

(2)

The text of point 31ebc (Commission Implementing Decision 2012/628/EU) is replaced by the following:

‘
  32019 D 1279: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1279 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of the United States of America as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 26).’

| (3) | The text of point 31ebg (Commission Implementing Decision 2014/247/EU) is replaced by the following:

  ‘
  32019 D 1280: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1280 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Mexico as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 30).’ |
| --- | --- |

(3)

The text of point 31ebg (Commission Implementing Decision 2014/247/EU) is replaced by the following:

‘
  32019 D 1280: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1280 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Mexico as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 30).’

| (4) | The text of point 31ebi (Commission Implementing Decision 2014/249/EU) is replaced by the following:

  ‘
  32019 D 1284: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1284 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Hong Kong as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 43).’ |
| --- | --- |

(4)

The text of point 31ebi (Commission Implementing Decision 2014/249/EU) is replaced by the following:

‘
  32019 D 1284: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1284 of 29 July 2019 on the recognition of the legal and supervisory framework of Hong Kong as equivalent to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies (OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 43).’

| (5) | The texts of points 31ebb (Commission Implementing Decision 2012/627/EU), 31ebd (Commission Implementing Decision 2012/630/EU), 31ebe (Commission Implementing Decision 2014/245/EU), 31ebf (Commission Implementing Decision 2014/246/EU) and 31ebh (Commission Implementing Decision 2014/248/EU) are deleted. |
| --- | --- |

(5)

The texts of points 31ebb (Commission Implementing Decision 2012/627/EU), 31ebd (Commission Implementing Decision 2012/630/EU), 31ebe (Commission Implementing Decision 2014/245/EU), 31ebf (Commission Implementing Decision 2014/246/EU) and 31ebh (Commission Implementing Decision 2014/248/EU) are deleted.

Article 2

The texts of Implementing Decisions (EU) 2019/1276, (EU) 2019/1277, (EU) 2019/1278, (EU) 2019/1279, (EU) 2019/1280, (EU) 2019/1281, (EU) 2019/1282, (EU) 2019/1283 and (EU) 2019/1284 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 14 December 2019, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1).

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, 13 December 2019.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Gunnar PÁLSSON

---

(1)  
  OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 17.

1

(2)  
  OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 20.

2

(3)  
  OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 23.

3

(4)  
  OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 26.

4

(5)  
  OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 30.

5

(6)  
  OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 34.

6

(7)  
  OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 37.

7

(8)  
  OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 40.

8

(9)  
  OJ L 201, 30.7.2019, p. 43.

9

(10)  
  OJ L 274, 9.10.2012, p. 30.

10

(11)  
  OJ L 278, 12.10.2012, p. 17.

11

(12)  
  OJ L 132, 3.5.2014, p. 73.

12

(13)  
  OJ L 274, 9.10.2012, p. 32.

13

(14)  
  OJ L 132, 3.5.2014, p. 71.

14

(15)  
  OJ L 132, 3.5.2014, p. 65.

15

(16)  
  OJ L 132, 3.5.2014, p. 68.

16

(17)  
  OJ L 254, 29.9.2010, p. 46.

17

(18)  
  OJ L 132, 3.5.2014, p. 76.

18

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.

*1

---