2005/319/: Decision of the EFTA Surveillance Authority No 319/05/COL of  14 December 2005  on amendments to College 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
Date: 2005-12-14
Institutions: EFTA Surveillance Authority
Subjects: EFTA Court, State aid, competition, electronic mail, exchange of information

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Official Journal of the European Union

27.4.2006

DECISION OF THE EFTA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY

No 319/05/COL

of 14 December 2005

on amendments to College 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

THE EFTA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

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

1a. Article 3(1) of Decision No 195/04/COL shall be replaced

by the following,

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 Articles 5(2)(a) and 24 thereof and
Article 27 in Part II of Protocol 3 to the Surveillance and Court
Agreement,

‘ The notification shall be transmitted to the Authority by the
Mission to the European Union of the EFTA State concerned
or any other contact point designated by the EFTA State.
It
shall be addressed to the Competition and State Aid Directorate
of the Authority. The Competition and State Aid Directorate of
the Authority may nominate contact points for the receipt of
notifications’.

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

1b. Article 3(6) of Decision No 195/04/COL shall be replaced

by the following,

WHEREAS the EFTA Surveillance Authority, as required by
Article 3(1) of Decision No 195/04/COL, will
implement a
electronic notification system as of 1 January 2006,

‘After consulting the EFTA States, the Authority shall publish in
the EEA Section of and the EEA Supplement to the Official
Journal of the European Union details of the arrangements for
including addresses
the electronic transmission of notifications,
together with any necessary arrangements for the protection of
confidential information’.

WHEREAS the EFTA States, for the purposes of submission of
electronic notifications
and related correspondence, have
designated one contact point,

1c. The second sentence of the fourth paragraph of Annex I to
replaced by the

Decision No 195/04/COL shall be
following,

AFTER CONSULTING the Advisory Committee on State Aid by
letter dated 30 November 2005 in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 29 in Part II of Protocol 3 to
the Surveillance and Court Agreement,

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

‘ The completed form shall be transmitted to the Authority by the
Mission to the European Union of the EFTA State concerned or
any other contact point designated by the EFTA State’.

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1d. In the Annexes to Decision No 195/04/COL, the reference
to the Mission to the European Union of the EFTA State
concerned or the EEA Coordination Unit of the EFTA State
shall be read as referring to the Mission to the European
Union of the EFTA State concerned or any other contact
point designated by the EFTA State.

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

4. This Decision is authentic in the English language.

Done at Brussels, 14 December 2005.

For the EFTA Surveillance Authority

3. This Decision shall enter into force on the day following

that of its adoption by the Authority.

Einar M. BULL
President

Kurt JÄGER
College Member