CELEX: 22013D0044
Language: en
Date: 2013-03-15 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 44/2013 of 15 March 2013 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement

29.8.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 231/18
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   No 44/2013
   of 15 March 2013
   amending Annex XX (Environment) 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 Decision 2012/720/EU of 14 November 2012 establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel for Industrial and Institutional Automatic Dishwasher Detergents (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Commission Decision 2012/721/EU of 14 November 2012 establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel for Industrial and Institutional Laundry Detergents (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Annex XX to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   The following points are inserted after point 2zf (Commission Decision 2012/481/EU) of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement:
   
               ‘2zg.
            
            
               
                  32012 D 0720: Commission Decision 2012/720/EU of 14 November 2012 establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel for Industrial and Institutional Automatic Dishwasher Detergents (OJ L 326, 24.11.2012, p. 25).
            
         
               2zh.
            
            
               
                  32012 D 0721: Commission Decision 2012/721/EU of 14 November 2012 establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel for Industrial and Institutional Laundry Detergents (OJ L 326, 24.11.2012, p. 38).’.
            
         Article 2
   The texts of Decisions 2012/720/EU and 2012/721/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 16 March 2013, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (3), or on the day of the entry into force of Decision No 200/2012 of the EEA Joint Committee of 26 October 2012 (4), 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, 15 March 2013.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The President
         
         Gianluca GRIPPA
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 326, 24.11.2012, p. 25.
   
      (2)  OJ L 326, 24.11.2012, p. 38.
   
      (3)  No constitutional requirements indicated.
   
      (4)  OJ L 21, 24.1.2013, p. 50.