Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 71/2018 of 23 March 2018 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2020/88]
Date: 2018-03-23
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, approval, environmental standard, greenhouse gas, pollution control measures, reduction of gas emissions, revision of an agreement, technical specification, technical standard, vehicle




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Official Journal of the European Union


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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 71/2018
of 23 March 2018
         
amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2020/88]


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 (EU) 2017/785 of 5 May 2017 on the approval of efficient 12 V motor-generators for use in conventional combustion engine powered passenger cars as an innovative technology for reducing CO2 emissions from passenger cars pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 443/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1152 of 2 June 2017 setting out a methodology for determining the correlation parameters necessary for reflecting the change in the regulatory test procedure with regard to light commercial vehicles and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 293/2012 (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(3)


Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1153 of 2 June 2017 setting out a methodology for determining the correlation parameters necessary for reflecting the change in the regulatory test procedure and amending Regulation (EU) No 1014/2010 (3) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(4)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



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






1.


The following points are inserted after point 21aew (Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1926):






‘21aex.



32017 R 0785: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/785 of 5 May 2017 on the approval of efficient 12 V motor-generators for use in conventional combustion engine powered passenger cars as an innovative technology for reducing CO2 emissions from passenger cars pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 443/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 118, 6.5.2017, p. 20).










21aey.



32017 R 1152: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1152 of 2 June 2017 setting out a methodology for determining the correlation parameters necessary for reflecting the change in the regulatory test procedure with regard to light commercial vehicles and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 293/2012 (OJ L 175, 7.7.2017, p. 644).










21aez.



32017 R 1153: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1153 of 2 June 2017 setting out a methodology for determining the correlation parameters necessary for reflecting the change in the regulatory test procedure and amending Regulation (EU) No 1014/2010 (OJ L 175, 7.7.2017, p. 679).’














2.


The following indent is added in point 21aya (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 293/2012):






‘—



32017 R 1152: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1152 of 2 June 2017 (OJ L 175, 7.7.2017, p. 644).’














3.


The following indent is added in point 21aec (Commission Regulation (EU) No 1014/2010):






‘—



32017 R 1153: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1153 of 2 June 2017 (OJ L 175, 7.7.2017, p. 679).’










Article 2
The texts of Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/785 and Implementing Regulations (EU) 2017/1152 and (EU) 2017/1153 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), or on the day of the entry into force of Decisions of the EEA Joint Committee No 109/2017 (4) and 111/2017 (5) of 16 June 2017, 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, 23 March 2018.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Claude MAERTEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 118, 6.5.2017, p. 20.

(2)  
            OJ L 175, 7.7.2017, p. 644.

(3)  
            OJ L 175, 7.7.2017, p. 679.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.

(4)  
            OJ L 142, 7.6.2018, p. 41.

(5)  
            OJ L 142, 7.6.2018, p. 45.