CELEX: 22016D1300
Language: en
Date: 2015-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 117/2015 of 30 April 2015 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1300]

4.8.2016   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 211/76
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 117/2015
      of 30 April 2015
      amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1300]
      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 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 amending Directive 2011/92/EU on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  Annex XX to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
               
            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
      Article 1
      The following is added in point 1a (Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement:
      ‘, as amended by:
      
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                     32014 L 0052: Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 (OJ L 124, 25.4.2014, p. 1).
               
            The provisions of the Directive shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation:
      References to Union legislation in the Directive shall apply to the extent and in the form that the relevant Union acts are incorporated into this Agreement.’
      Article 2
      The text of Directive 2014/52/EU 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 1 May 2015, 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, 30 April 2015.
         
            
               For the EEA Joint Committee
            
            
               The President
            
            Gianluca GRIPPA
         
      
      
         (1)  OJ L 124, 25.4.2014, p. 1.
      
         (*)  Constitutional requirements indicated.