Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 121/2016 of 3 June 2016 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) and Annex X (Services in general) to the EEA Agreement [2017/2139]
Date: 2016-06-03
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, administrative cooperation, art trade, cultural object, export, heritage protection, illicit trade, prevention of delinquency, revision of an agreement




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Official Journal of the European Union


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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 121/2016
of 3 June 2016
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) and Annex X (Services in general) to the EEA Agreement [2017/2139]


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)


Directive 2014/60/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member State and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 (1), as corrected by OJ L 147, 12.6.2015, p. 24, is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Directive 2014/60/EU repeals, Council Directive 93/7/EEC (2), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.












(3)


Annexes II and X to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



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






1.


The following is inserted after point 1 (Council Directive 93/7/EEC):






‘2.



32014 L 0060: Directive 2014/60/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member State and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 (OJ L 159, 28.5.2014, p. 1), as corrected by OJ L 147, 12.6.2015, p. 24.




The provisions of the Directive shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptations:
In Article 14, the reference to “on or after 1 January 1993
                              ” shall with regard to Iceland and Norway read “on or after 1 January 1995
                              ” and with regard to Liechtenstein read “on or after 1 May 1995
                              ”.’
                           










2.


The text of point 1 (Council Directive 93/7/EEC) is deleted.






Article 2
The following is added in point 3 (Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex X to the EEA Agreement:

                  ‘, as amended by:






—



32014 L 0060: Directive 2014/60/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 (OJ L 159, 28.5.2014, p. 1), as corrected by OJ L 147, 12.6.2015, p. 24.’
                     






Article 3
The text of Directive 2014/60/EU, as corrected by OJ L 147, 12.6.2015, p. 24, 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 4
This Decision shall enter into force on 4 June 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 102/2015 of 30 April 2015 (3), whichever is the later.


Article 5
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, 3 June 2016.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Claude MAERTEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 159, 28.5.2014, p. 1.

(2)  
            OJ L 74, 27.3.1993, p. 74.

(*1)  Constitutional requirements indicated.

(3)  
            OJ L 211, 4.8.2016, p. 55.