Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 136/2018 of 6 July 2018 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2021/198]
Date: 2018-07-06
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, food safety, foodstuff, health control, health risk, organic chemical, paints and varnishes, plastics, revision of an agreement, toxic substance




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         
No 136/2018
of 6 July 2018
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2021/198]


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) 2018/213 of 12 February 2018 on the use of bisphenol A in varnishes and coatings intended to come into contact with food and amending Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 as regards the use of that substance in plastic food contact materials (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


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.












(3)


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 55 (Commission Regulation (EU) No 10/2011):






‘—



32018 R 0213: Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/213 of 12 February 2018 (OJ L 41, 14.2.2018, p. 6).’;














(2)


the following point is inserted after point 129 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/660):






‘130.



32018 R 0213: Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/213 of 12 February 2018 on the use of bisphenol A in varnishes and coatings intended to come into contact with food and amending Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 as regards the use of that substance in plastic food contact materials (OJ L 41, 14.2.2018, p. 6).’










Article 2
The text of Regulation (EU) 2018/213 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 7 July 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, 6 July 2018.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Oda Helen SLETNES
            





(1)  
            OJ L 41, 14.2.2018, p. 6.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.