Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 21/2016 of 5 February 2016 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1304]
Date: 2016-02-05
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, European standard, chemical product, dangerous substance, product safety, revision of an agreement, safety standard, technical standard, toy industry




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20.7.2017   


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Official Journal of the European Union


L 189/30








            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 21/2016
of 5 February 2016
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1304]


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 Directive (EU) 2015/2115 of 23 November 2015 amending, for the purpose of adopting specific limit values for chemicals used in toys, Appendix C to Annex II to Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the safety of toys, as regards formamide (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Directive (EU) 2015/2116 of 23 November 2015 amending, for the purpose of adopting specific limit values for chemicals used in toys, Appendix C to Annex II to Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the safety of toys, as regards benzisothiazolinone (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(3)


Commission Directive (EU) 2015/2117 of 23 November 2015 amending, for the purpose of adopting specific limit values for chemicals used in toys, Appendix C to Annex II to Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the safety of toys, as regards chloromethylisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone, both individually and in a ratio of 3:1 (3) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(4)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following indents are added in point 1a (Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Chapter XXIII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement:






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32015 L 2115: Commission Directive (EU) 2015/2115 of 23 November 2015 (OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 17),










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32015 L 2116: Commission Directive (EU) 2015/2116 of 23 November 2015 (OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 20),










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32015 L 2117: Commission Directive (EU) 2015/2117 of 23 November 2015 (OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 23).’






Article 2
The texts of Directives (EU) 2015/2115, (EU) 2015/2116 and (EU) 2015/2117 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 6 February 2016, 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, 5 February 2016.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Claude MAERTEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 17.

(2)  
            OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 20.

(3)  
            OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 23.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.