Draft DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement - Draft common position of the Community

(presented by the Commission)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1. In order to ensure the requisite legal security and homogeneity, the EEA Joint Committee is to integrate all the relevant Community legislation into the EEA Agreement as soon as possible after its adoption.

2. The EEA Joint Committee should therefore adopt the attached decision to amend Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement by adding recently adopted acquis in the field of Statistics. The decision concerns:

398 R 1165: Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics (OJ L 162, 5.6.1998, p. 1).

3. Article 1.3(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2894/94 concerning the arrangements for implementing the EEA Agreement envisages that the Council establishes the Community position for such Decisions on a proposal from the Commission.

4. The draft Decision of the EEA Joint Committee is submitted for the approval of the Council. The Commission would hope to be able to put forward the position of the Community in the EEA Joint Committee in July 2000.

Draft DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement

THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as adjusted 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 ... of ... [1].

[1] OJ L ...

(2) Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics [2] is to be incorporated into the Agreement,

[2] OJ L 162, 5.6.1998, p. 1.

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The text of point 2 (Council Directive 72/211/EEC) of Annex XXI to the Agreement shall be replaced by the following:

'398 R 1165: Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics (OJ L 162, 5.6.1998, p. 1).

The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of the present Agreement, be read with the following adaptations:

(a) Iceland shall supply the data of variables 120 and 210 of Modules A and D, the data of variable 210 of Module B and the data of variables 120, 123 and 210 of Module C.

(b) Liechtenstein shall supply the data of variable 210 of Module A, the data of variables 135, 210 and 411 of Module B, the data of variable 210 of Module C and the data of variable 210 of Module D.

(c) Iceland and Liechtenstein shall supply data as from the first quarter of 2000.'

Article 2

The texts of Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Communities, shall be authentic.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on ... 2000, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee [3].

[3] [Constitutional requirements indicated./No constitutional requirements indicated.]

Article 4

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

Done at Brussels, ... 2000.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

The Secretaries to the EEA Joint Committee