Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 27/2007 of 27 April 2007 amending Annex XIII (Transport) to the EEA Agreement
Date: 2007-04-27
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: EU competence, EU office or agency, administrative transparency, air safety, civil aviation, operation of the Institutions, technical regulations

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 27/2007

of 27 April 2007

amending Annex XIII (Transport) 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 XIII to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 155/2006 of

8 December 2006 (1).

(2) Regulation (EC) No 1592/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 July 2002 on
common rules in the field of civil aviation and establishing a European Aviation Safety Agency (2) was
the EEA Joint Committee No 179/2004 (3) of
incorporated into the Agreement by Decision of
9 December 2004, with specific adaptations.

(3) Commission Regulation (EC) No 736/2006 of 16 May 2006 on working methods of the European
Aviation Safety Agency for conducting standardisation inspections (4) is to be incorporated into the
Agreement,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The following point shall be inserted after point 66q (Commission Regulation (EC) No 2042/2003) of
Annex XIII to the Agreement:

‘66qa. 32006 R 0736: Commission Regulation (EC) No 736/2006 of 16 May 2006 on working methods of
the European Aviation Safety Agency for conducting standardisation inspections (OJ L 129, 17.5.2006,
p. 10).

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

(a)

In Article 14 the words “or an agreement between the EFTA States and the third country” shall be
added after “Community agreement” and the words “as adapted for the purposes of
this
Agreement” shall be added after “Regulation (EC) No 1592/2002”.

(b) The following shall be added in the second subparagraph of Article 17:

“The annual report presenting an analysis of standardisation inspections shall be forwarded to the
EFTA Surveillance Authority.”’

The texts of Regulation (EC) No 736/2006 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 2

(1) OJ L 89, 29.3.2007, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 240, 7.9.2002, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 133, 26.5.2005, p. 37.
(4) OJ L 129, 17.5.2006, p. 10.

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This Decision shall enter into force on 28 April 2007, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1)
of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee (*).

Article 3

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

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 27 April 2007.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Alan SEATTER

(*) No constitutional requirements indicated.