ANNEX to the Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement
Date: 2018-02-13
Institutions: European Commission, European External Action Service
Subjects: European Economic Area, consumer price, consumption, data processing, habitat, harmonisation of standards, price index, publishing of prices, revision of an agreement, statistics

EUROPEAN 
COMMISSION 

Brussels, 13.2.2018 
COM(2017) 639 final/2 

ANNEX 

This document corrects document COM(2017) 639 final of 6.11.2017 
Concerns all language versions. 
The title of the Annex has been changed. 
The text should read as follows: 

ANNEX 

to the 

Proposal for a  

COUNCIL DECISION 

on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint 
Committee concerning an amendment to Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement

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ANNEX 

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) 

(2) 

Regulation (EU) 2016/792 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 
2016  on  harmonised  indices  of  consumer  prices  and  the  house  price  index,  and 
repealing  Council  Regulation  (EC)  No  2494/951  is  to  be  incorporated  into  the  EEA 
Agreement. 
Regulation  (EU)  2016/792  repeals  Council  Regulation  (EC)  No  2494/952,  which  is 
incorporated  into  the  EEA  Agreement  and  is  consequently  to  be  repealed  under  the 
EEA Agreement. 

(3) 

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: 

Article 1 

The  text  of  point  19a  (Council  Regulation  (EC)  No  2494/95)  of  Annex  XXI  to  the  EEA 
Agreement is replaced by the following: 

‘32016 R 0792: Regulation (EU) 2016/792 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 
11  May  2016  on  harmonised  indices  of  consumer  prices  and  the  house  price  index,  and 
repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 (OJ L 135, 24.5.2016, p. 11). 

The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the 
following adaptation: 

This Regulation shall not apply to Liechtenstein.’ 

The  text  of  Regulation  (EU)  2016/792  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 2 

This Decision shall enter into force on […], provided that all the notifications under Article 
103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made∗. 

Article 3 

This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the 
Official Journal of the European Union. 

Article 4 

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OJ L 135, 24.5.2016, p. 11. 
OJ L 257, 27.10.1995, p. 1. 
[No constitutional requirements indicated.] [Constitutional requirements indicated.] 

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Done at Brussels,  

For the EEA Joint Committee 
The President 

The Secretaries 
to the EEA Joint Committee 

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