EN Official Journal of the European Union L 53/31

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 139/2005

of 2 December 2005

amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) 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 I to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 93/2005 (1).

(2) Commission Decision 2005/176/EC of 1 March 2005 laying down the codified form and the codes for the notification of animal diseases pursuant to Council Directive 82/894/EEC (2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(3) Commission Decision 2005/209/EC of 11 March 2005 amending Decision 2004/288/EC as regards the prolongation of the temporary access of Australia and New Zealand to the Community reserves of foot-and-mouth disease virus antigens granted under that Decision (3) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(4) Commission Decision 2005/216/EC of 9 March 2005 amending Decision 2003/828/EC as regards exemptions from the exit ban for domestic movements of animals (4) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(5) Commission Decision 2005/224/EC of 14 March 2005 amending Decision 2003/136/EC as regards the termination of the plan for the emergency vaccination of feral pigs against classical swine fever in Luxembourg (5) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(6) Commission Decision 2005/226/EC of 14 March 2005 amending Decision 2005/59/EC as regards areas where the plans for the eradication of classical swine fever in feral pigs and the emergency vaccination of feral pigs against classical swine fever are to be implemented in Slovakia (6) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(7) Commission Decision 2005/235/EC of 15 March 2005 repealing Decision 2002/626/EC approving the plan submitted by France for the eradication of classical swine fever from feral pigs in Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle (7) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(8) Commission Decision 2005/236/EC of 15 March 2005 amending Decision 2003/135/EC as regards the termination of the plans for the eradication of classical swine fever in feral pigs and the emergency vaccination of feral pigs against classical swine fever in certain areas of the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) (8) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(9) Council Directive 2005/24/EC of 14 March 2005 with regard to the use of ova and embryos and storage centres for semen from pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species (9) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(10) Commission Decision 2005/264/EC of 23 March 2005 amending Decision 2004/832/EC as regards the eradication and emergency vaccination plan for feral pigs against classical swine fever in Northern Vosges, France (10) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(11) Decision 2005/176/EC repeals Commission Decision 2000/807/EC (11), which is incorporated into the Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the Agreement.

(12) This Decision is not to apply to Iceland and Liechtenstein,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Chapter I of Annex I to the Agreement shall be amended as specified in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

The texts of Directive 2005/24/EC and Decisions 2005/176/EC, 2005/209/EC, 2005/216/EC, 2005/224/EC, 2005/226/EC, 2005/235/EC, 2005/236/EC and 2005/264/EC in the Norwegian language, 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 3 December 2005, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee (12).

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, 2 December 2005. For the EEA Joint Committee The President H.S.H. Prinz Nikolaus von LIECHTENSTEIN

(1) OJ L 306, 24.11.2005, p. 14.

(2) OJ L 59, 5.3.2005, p. 40.

(3) OJ L 68, 15.3.2005, p. 42.

(4) OJ L 69, 16.3.2005, p. 39.

(5) OJ L 71, 17.3.2005, p. 69.

(6) OJ L 71, 17.3.2005, p. 72.

(7) OJ L 72, 18.3.2005, p. 43.

(8) OJ L 72, 18.3.2005, p. 44.

(9) OJ L 78, 24.3.2005, p. 43.

(10) OJ L 81, 30.3.2005, p. 48.

(11) OJ L 326, 22.12.2000, p. 80.

(12) No constitutional requirements indicated.