Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 234/2018 of 5 December 2018 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement (2021/1501)
Date: 2018-12-05
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, consumer protection, food inspection, food safety, food supplement, foodstuff, human nutrition, labelling, market approval, revision of an agreement




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 234/2018
of 5 December 2018
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement (2021/1501)


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 Regulation (EU) 2018/1032 of 20 July 2018 authorising the extension of use of oil from the micro algae Schizochytrium sp. as a novel food under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1293 of 26 September 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 as regards the conditions of use of the novel food lactitol (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 indents are added in point 124b (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470):






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32018 R 1032: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1032 of 20 July 2018 (OJ L 185, 23.7.2018, p. 9),










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32018 R 1293: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1293 of 26 September 2018 (OJ L 243, 27.9.2018, p. 2).’














2.


The following points are inserted after point 138 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1018):






‘139.



32018 R 1032: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1032 of 20 July 2018 authorising the extension of use of oil from the micro algae Schizochytrium sp. as a novel food under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 (OJ L 185, 23.7.2018, p. 9).










140.



32018 R 1293: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1293 of 26 September 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 as regards the conditions of use of the novel food lactitol (OJ L 243, 27.9.2018, p. 2).’










Article 2
The texts of Implementing Regulations (EU) 2018/1032 and (EU) 2018/1293 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 6 December 2018, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*).


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, 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 185, 23.7.2018, p. 9.

(2)  
            OJ L 243, 27.9.2018, p. 2.

(*)  No constitutional requirements indicated.