Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 46/2018 of 23 March 2018 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2020/63]
Date: 2018-03-23
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, consumer protection, food additive, food safety, foodstuff, market approval, meat product, phosphate, prepared foodstuff, 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 46/2018
of 23 March 2018
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2020/63]


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 Regulation (EU) 2018/74 of 17 January 2018 amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the use of phosphoric acid — phosphates — di-, tri- and polyphosphates (E 338-452) in frozen vertical meat spits (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/75 of 17 January 2018 amending the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 231/2012 laying down specifications for food additives listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards specifications for Microcrystalline cellulose (E460(i)) (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(3)


This Decision concerns legislation regarding foodstuffs. Legislation regarding foodstuffs 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 introduction to Chapter XII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement. This Decision is therefore not to apply to Liechtenstein.












(4)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



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






(1)


The following indent is added in point 54zzzzr (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council):






‘—



32018 R 0074: Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/74 of 17 January 2018 (OJ L 13, 18.1.2018, p. 21).’














(2)


The following indent is added in point 69 (Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012):






‘—



32018 R 0075: Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/75 of 17 January 2018 (OJ L 13, 18.1.2018, p. 24).’










Article 2
The texts of Regulations (EU) 2018/74 and (EU) 2018/75 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 24 March 2018, 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, 23 March 2018.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Claude MAERTEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 13, 18.1.2018, p. 21.

(2)  
            OJ L 13, 18.1.2018, p. 24.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.