Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 194/2020 of 11 December 2020 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2023/1996]
Date: 2020-12-11
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, cocoa, consumer protection, food safety, fruit juice, market approval, novel food, originating product, revision of an agreement, third country




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 194/2020
of 11 December 2020
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2023/1996]


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) 2020/206 of 14 February 2020 authorising the placing on the market of fruit pulp, pulp juice, concentrated pulp juice from Theobroma cacao L. as a traditional food from a third country under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 (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 124b (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470):






‘—



32020 R 0206: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/206 of 14 February 2020 (OJ L 43, 17.2.2020, p. 66).’














2.


The following point is inserted after point 175 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/24):






‘176.



32020 R 0206: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/206 of 14 February 2020 authorising the placing on the market of fruit pulp, pulp juice, concentrated pulp juice from Theobroma cacao L. as a traditional food from a third country under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 (OJ L 43, 17.2.2020, p. 66).’










Article 2
The text of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/206 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 12 December 2020, 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, 11 December 2020.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Sabine MONAUNI
            





(1)  
            OJ L 43, 17.2.2020, p. 66.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.