Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 32/2016 of 5 February 2016 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1315]
Date: 2016-02-05
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, accident prevention, dangerous substance, disclosure of information, industrial hazard, revision of an agreement




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20.7.2017   


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Official Journal of the European Union


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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 32/2016
of 5 February 2016
         
amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1315]


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 Decision 2014/895/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating the information referred to in Article 21(3) of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Implementing Decision 2014/896/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating information from Member States on the implementation of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(3)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
Annex XX to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:






(1)


the text of point 23aa (deleted) is replaced by the following:

                              ‘
                              32014 D 0896: Commission Implementing Decision 2014/896/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating information from Member States on the implementation of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (OJ L 355, 12.12.2014, p. 55).’;










(2)


the following point is inserted after point 23c (deleted):






‘23d.



32014 D 0895: Commission Implementing Decision 2014/895/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating the information referred to in Article 21(3) of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (OJ L 355, 12.12.2014, p. 51).’










Article 2
The texts of Implementing Decisions 2014/895/EU and 2014/896/EU 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), or on the day of the entry into force of Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 193/2015 of 10 July 2015 (3), whichever is the later.


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 355, 12.12.2014, p. 51.

(2)  
            OJ L 355, 12.12.2014, p. 55.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.

(3)  
            OJ L 8, 12.1.2017, p. 29.