Decision of the EEA joint Committee No 318/2021 of 29 October 2021 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2024/522]
Date: 2021-10-29
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, environmental impact, environmental protection, environmental statistics, exchange of information, prevention of pollution, revision of an agreement, waste, waste disposal, waste recycling




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 318/2021
of 29 October 2021
         
amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2024/522]


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)


Directive (EU) 2018/851 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 amending Directive 2008/98/EC on waste (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1004 of 7 June 2019 laying down rules for the calculation, verification and reporting of data on waste in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Implementing Decision C(2012) 2384 (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(3)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
Annex XX to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:






1.


The following is added in point 32ff (Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council):






‘-



32018 L 0851: Directive (EU) 2018/851 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 (OJ L 150, 14.6.2018, p. 109).




The provisions of the Directive shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation:
Article 9(4), (5), (7) and (8) and Article 37(3) shall not apply to Liechtenstein.’
                           










2.


The following is inserted after point 32ffe (Commission Implementing Decision 2013/727/EU):






‘32fff.



32019 D 1004: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1004 of 7 June 2019 laying down rules for the calculation, verification and reporting of data on waste in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Implementing Decision C(2012) 2384 (OJ L 163, 20.6.2019, p. 66).
The provisions of the Decision shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation:
For the purposes of Article 3 and Annex I, Liechtenstein shall use an equivalent method to determine the weight of the municipal waste recycled.’
                                    










Article 2
The texts of Directive (EU) 2018/851 and Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1004 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 30 October 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, 29 October 2021.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Rolf Einar FIFE
            





(1)  
            OJ L 150, 14.6.2018, p. 109.

(2)  
            OJ L 163, 20.6.2019, p. 66.

(*1)  Constitutional requirements indicated.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/522/oj
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