Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 33/2015 of 25 February 2015 amending Protocol 47 (on the abolition of technical barriers to trade in wine) to the EEA Agreement [2016/521]
Date: 2015-02-25
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, agricultural production, anhydride, atmospheric conditions, preservative, revision of an agreement, technical barriers to trade, vinification, viticulture, wine




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 33/2015
of 25 February 2015
         
amending Protocol 47 (on the abolition of technical barriers to trade in wine) to the EEA Agreement [2016/521]


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)


Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1251/2013 of 3 December 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 606/2009 as regards certain oenological practices and Regulation (EC) No 436/2009 as regards the registering of these practices in the wine sector registers (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 347/2014 of 4 April 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 606/2009 as regards the increase in the maximum total sulphur dioxide content where the climate conditions make this necessary (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(3)


This Decision concerns legislation regarding wine. Legislation regarding wine 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 seventh paragraph of the introduction to Protocol 47 to the EEA Agreement. This Decision is therefore not to apply to Liechtenstein.












(4)


Protocol 47 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following indents are added in point 10 (Commission Regulation (EC) No 606/2009) in Appendix 1 to Protocol 47 to the EEA Agreement:






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32013 R 1251: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1251/2013 of 3 December 2013 (OJ L 323, 4.12.2013, p. 28),










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32014 R 0347: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 347/2014 of 4 April 2014 (OJ L 102, 5.4.2014, p. 9).’






Article 2
The texts of Implementing Regulations (EU) No 1251/2013 and (EU) No 347/2014 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 26 February 2015, 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, 25 February 2015.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Gianluca GRIPPA
            





(1)  
            OJ L 323, 4.12.2013, p. 28.

(2)  
            OJ L 102, 5.4.2014, p. 9.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.