Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 214/2014 of 24 October 2014 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2015/1438]
Date: 2014-10-24
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, chemical product, consumer information, dangerous substance, food safety, labelling, revision of an agreement




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 214/2014
of 24 October 2014
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2015/1438]


THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (“the EEA Agreement”), and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 (1), as corrected by OJ L 247, 13.9.2012, p. 17, is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 repeals, with effect from 13 December 2014, Commission Directive 87/250/EEC of 15 April 1987 on the indication of alcoholic strength by volume in the labelling of alcoholic beverages for sale to the ultimate consumer (2), Council Directive 90/496/EEC of 24 September 1990 on nutrition labelling for foodstuffs (3), Commission Directive 1999/10/EC of 8 March 1999 providing for derogations from the provisions of Article 7 of Council Directive 79/112/EEC as regards the labelling of foodstuffs (4), Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 March 2000 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs (5), Commission Directive 2002/67/EC of 18 July 2002 on the labelling of foodstuffs containing quinine, and of foodstuffs containing caffeine (6), Commission Directive 2008/5/EC of 30 January 2008 concerning the compulsory indication on the labelling of certain foodstuffs of particulars other than those provided for in Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (7) and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 of 31 March 2004 concerning the labelling of foods and food ingredients with added phytosterols, phytosterol esters, phytostanols and/or phytostanol esters (8), which are incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which are consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement with effect from 13 December 2014.












(3)


This Decision concerns legislation regarding foodstuffs. Legislation regarding foodstuffs shall not apply to Liechtenstein as long as the application of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products is extended to Liechtenstein, as specified in the introduction to Chapter XII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement. This Decision is therefore not to apply to Liechtenstein.












(4)


Annex II to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
Chapter XII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:






(1)


the following indent is added in points 54zzzt (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council) and 54zzzu (Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council):






‘—



32011 R 1169: Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 (OJ L 304, 22.11.2011, p. 18), as corrected by OJ L 247, 13.9.2012, p. 17.’;














(2)


the following is inserted after point 85 (Commission Regulation (EU) No 40/2014):






‘86.



32011 R 1169: Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 (OJ L 304, 22.11.2011, p. 18), as corrected by OJ L 247, 13.9.2012, p. 17.
The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptations:

                                             “The following shall be added in point 7 of Part A of Annex VI:

                                             ‘In Icelandic: “Samsett úr stykkjum af kjöti” and “Samsett úr stykkjum af fiski”;’
                                          

                                             ‘In Norwegian: “sammensatte stykker av kjøtt” and “sammensatte stykker av fisk”;’ ” ’;














(3)


the text of points 18 (Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council), 41 (Commission Directive 87/250/EEC), 53 (Council Directive 90/496/EEC), 54zd (Commission Directive 1999/10/EC), 54zza (Commission Directive 2002/67/EC), 54zzo (Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004) and 54zzzw (Commission Directive 2008/5/EC) shall be deleted with effect from 13 December 2014.






Article 2
The text of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, as corrected by OJ L 247, 13.9.2012, p. 17, 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 1 November 2014, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*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, 24 October 2014.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Kurt JÄGER
            





(1)  
            OJ L 304, 22.11.2011, p. 18.

(2)  
            OJ L 113, 30.4.1987, p. 57.

(3)  
            OJ L 276, 6.10.1990, p. 40.

(4)  
            OJ L 69, 16.3.1999, p. 22.

(5)  
            OJ L 109, 6.5.2000, p. 29.

(6)  
            OJ L 191, 19.7.2002, p. 20.

(7)  
            OJ L 27, 31.1.2008, p. 12.

(8)  
            OJ L 97, 1.4.2004, p. 44.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.