CELEX: 22013D0141
Language: en
Date: 2013-07-15 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 141/2013 of 15 July 2013 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement

19.12.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 345/10
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   No 141/2013
   of 15 July 2013
   amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement
   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 Regulation (EU) No 722/2012 of 8 August 2012 concerning particular requirements as regards the requirements laid down in Council Directives 90/385/EEC and 93/42/EEC with respect to active implantable medical devices and medical devices manufactured utilising tissues of animal origin (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Regulation (EU) No 722/2012 repeals, with effect from 29 August 2013, Commission Directive 2003/32/EC (2) which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement with effect from 29 August 2013.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Annex II to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   Chapter XXX of Annex II to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:
   
               (1)
            
            
               the following point is inserted after point 5 (Commission Directive 2003/32/EC):
               
                           ‘5a.
                        
                        
                           
                              32012 R 0722: Commission Regulation (EU) No 722/2012 of 8 August 2012 concerning particular requirements as regards the requirements laid down in Council Directives 90/385/EEC and 93/42/EEC with respect to active implantable medical devices and medical devices manufactured utilising tissues of animal origin (OJ L 212, 9.8.2012, p. 3).’;
                        
                     
         
               (2)
            
            
               the text of point 5 (Commission Directive 2003/32/EC) shall be deleted with effect from 29 August 2013.
            
         Article 2
   The text of Regulation (EU) No 722/2012 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 16 July 2013, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (3).
   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, 15 July 2013.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The President
         
         Thórir IBSEN
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 212, 9.8.2012, p. 3.
   
      (2)  OJ L 105, 26.4.2003, p. 18.
   
      (3)  No constitutional requirements indicated.