Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 149/2019 of 14 June 2019 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2022/2141]
Date: 2019-06-14
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, cereals, consumer information, food inspection, foodstuff, labelling, market approval, originating product, revision of an agreement, third country




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 149/2019
of 14 June 2019
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2022/2141]


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) 2018/2016 of 18 December 2018 authorising the placing on the market of decorticated grains of Digitaria exilis as a traditional food from a third country 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) 2018/2017 of 18 December 2018 authorising the placing on the market of syrup from Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench as a traditional food from a third country under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 (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):






‘—



32018 R 2016: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2016 of 18 December 2018 (OJ L 323, 19.12.2018, p. 1),










—



32018 R 2017: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2017 of 18 December 2018 (OJ L 323, 19.12.2018, p. 4).’














2.


The following points are inserted after point 157 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/110):






‘158.



32018 R 2016: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2016 of 18 December 2018 authorising the placing on the market of decorticated grains of Digitaria exilis as a traditional food from a third country under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 (OJ L 323, 19.12.2018, p. 1).










159.



32018 R 2017: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2017 of 18 December 2018 authorising the placing on the market of syrup from Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench as a traditional food from a third country under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 (OJ L 323, 19.12.2018, p. 4).’










Article 2
The texts of Implementing Regulations (EU) 2018/2016 and (EU) 2018/2017 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 15 June 2019, 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, 14 June 2019.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Claude MAERTEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 323, 19.12.2018, p. 1.

(2)  
            OJ L 323, 19.12.2018, p. 4.

(*)  No constitutional requirements indicated.