Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 29/2022 of 4 February 2022 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2022/1077]
Date: 2022-02-04
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: EU Member State, EU emission allowance, European Economic Area, climate change, environmental monitoring, greenhouse gas, pollution control, protocol to an agreement, reduction of gas emissions, revision of an agreement




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30.6.2022   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 175/46








            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 29/2022
of 4 February 2022
         
amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2022/1077]


THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Articles 86 and 98 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement to include Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/2126 of 16 December 2020 on setting out the annual emission allocations of the Member States for the period from 2021 to 2030 pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1).












(2)


In line with Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2018/842, as adapted for the purposes of the EEA Agreement by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 269/2019 of 25 October 2019 (2), the EFTA Surveillance Authority has adopted Decision No 204/21/COL of 21 July 2021 setting out Iceland’s and Norway’s annual emission allocations pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2018/842.












(3)


By virtue of Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 269/2019 of 25 October 2019, Regulation (EU) 2018/842 does not apply to Liechtenstein.












(4)


Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following is added after the second indent (Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of paragraph 8(a) of Article 3 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement:






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32020 D 2126: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/2126 of 16 December 2020 on setting out the annual emission allocations of the Member States for the period from 2021 to 2030 pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 426, 17.12.2020, p. 58).
The Decision shall, for the purposes of the present Agreement, be read with the following adaptations:






(i)


The following shall be added to the table in Annex I:






“Iceland


3 109 329 




Norway


28 925 334 ”














(ii)


The following shall be added to the table in Annex II:















“Iceland


2 876 150 


2 802 993 


2 729 836 


2 656 679 


2 583 522 


2 510 365 


2 437 208 


2 364 050 


2 290 893 


2 217 736 




Norway


25 164 459 


24 296 764 


23 429 068 


22 561 373 


21 693 677 


20 825 982 


19 958 287 


19 090 591 


18 222 896 


17 355 200 ”














(iii)


The following shall be added to the table in Annex III:






“Iceland


1 243 732 




Norway


5 785 067 ’”














Article 2
The text of Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/2126 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 5 February 2022, 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, 4 February 2022.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Nicolas VON LINGEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 426, 17.12.2020, p. 58.

(2)  Not yet published in the Official Journal.

(*)  No constitutional requirements indicated.