EN Official Journal of the European Union L 266/25

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 61/2007

of 8 June 2007

amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement

THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’, and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Annex XXI to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 38/2007 of 27 April 2007 (1).

(2) Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains (2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(3) Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 replaces references to the statistical classification NACE Rev. 1 by references to the new classification NACE Rev. 2.

(4) The references to NACE Rev. 1 in point 2 of the sectoral adaptations in Annex XXI should therefore be amended,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Annex XXI to the Agreement shall be amended as follows:

1. The text of paragraph 2 of the sectoral adaptations shall be replaced by the following: ‘References to the “Nomenclature of the Economic Activities in the European Communities (NACE Rev. 1)” shall, except where otherwise provided, be read as references to “Nomenclature of Economic Activities in the European Communities (NACE Rev. 2)”, as defined by Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains. The referred code numbers shall be read as the corresponding converted code numbers in NACE Rev. 2.’

2. The following point shall be inserted after point 20b (Council Regulation (EEC) No 3696/93): ‘20c. 32006 R 1893: Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains (OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1).’

3. The following indent shall be added in points 1 (Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97), 2 (Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98), 7f (Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98), 20 (Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90) and 27 (Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council): ‘— 32006 R 1893: Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 (OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1).’

4. The following shall be added in points 4a (Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91), 4c (Regulation (EC) No 48/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council), 18d (Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999), 18g (Regulation (EC) No 450/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council), 18q (Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council) and 28 (Regulation (EC) No 808/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council): ‘, as amended by: — 32006 R 1893: Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 (OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1).’

Article 2

The texts of Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 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 9 June 2007, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee (3).

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, 8 June 2007. For the EEA Joint Committee The President Alan SEATTER

(1) OJ L 209, 9.8.2007, p. 68.

(2) OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1.

(3) No constitutional requirements indicated.