Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 18/2021 of 5 February 2021 amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) and Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2024/27]
Date: 2021-02-05
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, animal product, consumer protection, drug residue, food inspection, food safety, foodstuff, health risk, revision of an agreement, veterinary inspection




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 18/2021
of 5 February 2021
         
amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) and Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2024/27]


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) 2019/1871 of 7 November 2019 on reference points for action for non-allowed pharmacologically active substances present in food of animal origin and repealing Decision 2005/34/EC (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Regulation (EU) 2019/1871 repeals Commission Decision 2005/34/EC (2), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.












(3)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following is inserted after point 12d (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/470) of Chapter XIII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement:






‘12e.



32019 R 1871: Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1871 of 7 November 2019 on reference points for action for non-allowed pharmacologically active substances present in food of animal origin and repealing Decision 2005/34/EC (OJ L 289, 8.11.2019, p. 41).
The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of the EEA Agreement, be read with the following adaptation:
References to other acts in the Regulation shall be considered relevant to the extent and in the form that those acts are incorporated into the Agreement.’
                        






Article 2
The text of point 128 (Commission Decision 2005/34/EC) of Chapter I of Annex I to the EEA Agreement is deleted.


Article 3
The text of Regulation (EU) 2019/1871 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 February 2021, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1).


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 February 2021.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Clara GANSLANDT
            





(1)  
            OJ L 289, 8.11.2019, p. 41.

(2)  
            OJ L 16, 20.1.2005, p. 61.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated


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