Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 228/2018 of 5 December 2018 amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) and Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2021/1495]
Date: 2018-12-05
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: Denmark, European Economic Area, Germany, Netherlands, animal feedingstuffs, food contamination, food inspection, foodstuff, research body, revision of an agreement




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 228/2018
of 5 December 2018
         
amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) and Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2021/1495]


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) 2018/192 of 8 February 2018 amending Annex VII to Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the EU reference laboratories in the field of contaminants in feed and food (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


This Decision concerns legislation regarding veterinary matters, feedingstuffs and foodstuffs. Legislation regarding veterinary matters, feedingstuffs and 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 sectoral adaptations to Annex I and the introduction to Chapter XII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement. This Decision is therefore not to apply to Liechtenstein.












(3)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
Annex I to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:






1.


The following indent is added in point 11 (Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council) in Part 1.1 of Chapter I:






‘-



32018 R 0192: Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/192 of 8 February 2018 (OJ L 36, 9.2.2018, p. 15).’














2.


The following indent is added in point 31j (Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Chapter II:






‘-



32018 R 0192: Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/192 of 8 February 2018 (OJ L 36, 9.2.2018, p. 15).’










Article 2
The following indent is added in point 54zzzi (Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Chapter XII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement:






‘-



32018 R 0192: Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/192 of 8 February 2018 (OJ L 36, 9.2.2018, p. 15).’






Article 3
The text of Regulation (EU) 2018/192 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 6 December 2018, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*).


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, 5 December 2018.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Oda Helen SLETNES
            



The Secretaries


To the EEA Joint Committee

Hege M. HOFF
            
Mikołaj KARŁOWSKI
            





(1)  
            OJ L 36, 9.2.2018, p. 15.

(*)  No constitutional requirements indicated.