Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 3/2019 of 8 February 2019 amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement [2020/922]
Date: 2019-02-08
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, cereal-growing, fodder, fodder plant, fodder-growing, marketing standard, plant breeding, revision of an agreement, seed, sorghum




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16.7.2020   


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Official Journal of the European Union


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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 3/2019
of 8 February 2019
         
amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement [2020/922]


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 Directive (EU) 2018/1027 of 19 July 2018 amending Council Directive 66/402/EEC as regards isolation distances for Sorghum spp. (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1028 of 19 July 2018 correcting Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/2109 amending Council Directive 66/401/EEC as regards the inclusion of new species and the botanical name of the species Lolium x boucheanum Kunth (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(3)


This Decision concerns legislation regarding phytosanitary matters. Legislation regarding phytosanitary matters 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 to the EEA Agreement. This Decision is therefore not to apply to Liechtenstein.












(4)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



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






(1)


the following is added in the 35th indent (Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/2109) of point 2 (Council Directive 66/401/EEC):

                              ‘, as amended by:






—



32018 L 1028: Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1028 of 19 July 2018 (OJ L 184, 20.7.2018, p. 7).’;














(2)


the following indent is added in point 3 (Council Directive 66/402/EEC):






‘—



32018 L 1027: Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1027 of 19 July 2018 (OJ L 184, 20.7.2018, p. 4).’










Article 2
The texts of Implementing Directives (EU) 2018/1027 and (EU) 2018/1028 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 9 February 2019, 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, 8 February 2019.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Claude MAERTEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 184, 20.7.2018, p. 4.

(2)  
            OJ L 184, 20.7.2018, p. 7.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.