EN Official Journal of the European Union L 148/35

EFTA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY DECISION

No 387/06/COL

of 13 December 2006

amending EFTA Surveillance Authority Decision No 195/04/COL on the implementing provisions referred to under Article 27 in Part II of Protocol 3 to the Agreement between the EFTA States on the establishment of a Surveillance Authority and a Court of Justice as regards the standard forms for notification of aid

THE EFTA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY,

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (1), in particular to Articles 61 to 63 and Protocol 26 thereof,

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the EFTA States on the Establishment of a Surveillance Authority and a Court of Justice (2), in particular to Article 27 in Part II of Protocol 3 to the Surveillance and Court Agreement,

WHEREAS on 14 July 2004, the EFTA Surveillance Authority adopted Decision No 195/04/COL on the implementing provisions referred to under Articles 27 to 29 in Part II of Protocol 3 to the Surveillance and Court Agreement (3),

WHEREAS the EFTA Surveillance Authority Decision No 195/04/COL established a compulsory comprehensive State aid notification form,

WHEREAS the EFTA Surveillance Authority adopted new guidelines on national regional aid for the period 2007 to 2013 (4) which will be applicable to all regional aid to be granted after 31 December 2006,

WHEREAS as a consequence of the adoption of the new Community guidelines on national regional aid for the period 2007 to 2013 (5), the European Commission has modified parts of the notification form (6),

WHEREAS following the adoption by the EFTA Surveillance Authority of new guidelines on national regional aid for the period 2007 to 2013, it is necessary to modify parts of the notification form in Decision No 195/04/COL,

AFTER CONSULTING the Advisory Committee on State Aid by letter dated 21 November 2006 on the basis of Article 29 in Part II of Protocol 3 to the Surveillance and Court Agreement,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annex I to the EFTA Surveillance Authority Decision No 195/04/COL is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following its adoption by the Authority.

Article 4

This Decision is authentic in the English language.

Done at Brussels, 13 December 2006. For the EFTA Surveillance Authority Bjørn T. GRYDELAND President Kristján Andri STEFÁNSSON College Member

(1) Hereinafter referred to as the EEA Agreement.

(2) Hereinafter referred to as the Surveillance and Court Agreement.

(3) OJ L 139, 25.5.2006, p. 37 and the EEA Supplement No 26, 25.5.2006, p. 1.

(4) EFTA Surveillance Authority’s Decision No 85/06/COL of 6 April 2006, not yet published in the Official Journal. Chapter 25B of the State Aid Guidelines corresponds to Communication from the Commission — Guidelines on national regional aid for 2007-2013 (OJ C 54, 4.3.2006, p. 13).

(5) See footnote 4.

(6) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1627/2006 of 24 October 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 as regards the standard forms for notification of aid (OJ L 302, 1.11.2006, p. 10).