Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 335/2022 of 9 December 2022 amending Annex XI (Electronic communication, audiovisual services and information society) to the EEA Agreement [2023/1277]
Date: 2022-12-09
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, consumer protection, mobile communication, price regulations, provision of services, regulation of telecommunications, revision of an agreement, telephone charges, transmission network, wholesale trade




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29.6.2023   


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Official Journal of the European Union


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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 335/2022
of 9 December 2022
         
amending Annex XI (Electronic communication, audiovisual services and information society) to the EEA Agreement [2023/1277]


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 Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/654 of 18 December 2020 supplementing Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council by setting a single maximum Union-wide mobile voice termination rate and a single maximum Union-wide fixed voice termination rate (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following is inserted after point 5czsb (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1070) of Annex XI to the EEA Agreement:






‘5czsc.



32021 R 0654: Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/654 of 18 December 2020 supplementing Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council by setting a single maximum Union-wide mobile voice termination rate and a single maximum Union-wide fixed voice termination rate (OJ L 137, 22.4.2021, p. 1).
The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptations:






(a)


In Article 4(3), the following points are inserted after point (l):






“(m)


ISK 0,77 per minute in Iceland;










(n)


NOK 0,032 per minute in Norway.”














(b)


In Article 4(4), the following points are inserted after point (g):






“(h)


ISK 0,74 per minute in Iceland;










(i)


NOK 0,032 per minute in Norway.”














(c)


In Article 4(5), the following point is inserted after point (c):






“(d)


NOK 0,032 per minute in Norway.”’














Article 2
The text of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/654 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), or on the day of the entry into force of Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 275/2021 of 24 September 2021 (2), whichever is the later.


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 137, 22.4.2021, p. 1.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.

(2)  Not yet published in the Official Journal.