Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 24/2021 of 5 February 2021 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2024/32]
Date: 2021-02-05
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, consumer information, food inspection, food safety, food supplement, labelling, market approval, novel food, revision of an agreement, vitamin




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 24/2021
of 5 February 2021
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2024/32]


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) 2020/1163 of 6 August 2020 authorising the placing on the market of vitamin D2 mushroom powder 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)


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 1163: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1163 of 6 August 2020 (OJ L 258, 7.8.2020, p. 1).’














2.


The following point is inserted after point 181 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/917):






‘182.



32020 R 1163: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1163 of 6 August 2020 authorising the placing on the market of vitamin D2 mushroom powder 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 258, 7.8.2020, p. 1).’










Article 2
The text of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1163 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 February 2021, 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, 5 February 2021.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Clara GANSLANDT
            





(1)  
            OJ L 258, 7.8.2020, p. 1.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.


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