Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 336/2022 of 9 December 2022 amending Annex XI (Electronic communication, audiovisual services and information society) to the EEA Agreement [2023/1278]
Date: 2022-12-09
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, contract terms, cross-frontier data flow, data protection, data-processing law, disclosure of information, personal data, protection of privacy, revision of an agreement, third country




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 336/2022
of 9 December 2022
         
amending Annex XI (Electronic communication, audiovisual services and information society) to the EEA Agreement [2023/1278]


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 Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021 on standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/915 of 4 June 2021 on standard contractual clauses between controllers and processors under Article 28(7) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Article 29(7) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(3)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following points are inserted after point 5eu (Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/254) of Annex XI to the EEA Agreement:






‘5ev.



32021 D 0914: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021 on standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 199, 7.6.2021, p. 31).










5ew.



32021 D 0915: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/915 of 4 June 2021 on standard contractual clauses between controllers and processors under Article 28(7) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Article 29(7) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 199, 7.6.2021, p. 18).’






Article 2
The texts of Implementing Decisions (EU) 2021/914 and (EU) 2021/915 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 10 December 2022, 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, 9 December 2022.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Kristján Andri STEFÁNSSON
            





(1)  
            OJ L 199, 7.6.2021, p. 31.

(2)  
            OJ L 199, 7.6.2021, p. 18.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.