Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 25/2012 of 10 February 2012 amending Annex XIII (Transport) to the EEA Agreement
Date: 2012-02-10
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, Norway, drivers, intra-EU transport, professional qualifications, rail transport, revision of an agreement, technical standard




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Official Journal of the European Union


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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 25/2012
of 10 February 2012
         
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 165/2011 of 19 December 2011 (1).












(2)


Commission Regulation (EU) No 36/2010 of 3 December 2009 on Community models for train driving licences, complementary certificates, certified copies of complementary certificates and application forms for train driving licences, under Directive 2007/59/EC of the European Parliament and the Council (2), as corrected by OJ L 286, 4.11.2010, p. 22, is to be incorporated into the Agreement,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following shall be inserted after point 42ga (Commission Decision 2010/17/EC) of Annex XIII to the Agreement:






‘42 gb.



32010 R 0036: Commission Regulation (EU) No 36/2010 of 3 December 2009 on Community models for train driving licences, complementary certificates, certified copies of complementary certificates and application forms for train driving licences, under Directive 2007/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 13, 19.1.2010, p. 1), as corrected by OJ L 286, 4.11.2010, p. 22.
The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of the present Agreement, be read with the following adaptations:






(a)


the terms “Community model” and “European Communities model” in the Regulation and its Annexes shall be replaced by “EEA model” when a licence, a complementary certificate, a certified copy of complementary certificate or an application form for train driving licences is issued by an EFTA State;










(b)


in Annex I section 3(c), the introductory sentence shall, with regard to the EFTA States, be replaced by:

                                             “the distinguishing sign of the EFTA State issuing the licence, printed in black encircled by a black ellipse.”;










(c)


in Annex I section 3(c), the following shall be added:







“N


:


Norway”;














(d)


in Annex I section 3(d) the following shall be added:







“Norwegian


:


FØRERBEVIS”;














(e)


in Annex I section 6, the following shall be added with regard to the EFTA States:

                                             “The distinguishing sign of the EFTA State issuing the licence shall be printed in accordance with section 3(c) of this Annex.”;










(f)


the rectangle containing 12 stars in the complementary certificate, copy of complementary certificate and train driving licence application form set out in Annexes II section 4, III section 4 and IV section 2 shall, with regard to the EFTA States, be replaced by the distinguishing sign of the issuing EFTA State, printed in black encircled by a black ellipse.’.










Article 2
The text of Regulation (EU) No 36/2010, as corrected by OJ L 286, 4.11.2010, p. 22, 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 3
This Decision shall enter into force on 11 February 2012, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee (*1).


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, 10 February 2012.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The Acting President

Gianluca GRIPPA
            





(1)  
            OJ L 76, 15.3.2012, p. 57.

(2)  
            OJ L 13, 19.1.2010, p. 1.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.