CELEX: 22013D0028
Language: en
Date: 2013-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 28/2013 of 1 February 2013 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement

30.5.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 144/34
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   No 28/2013
   of 1 February 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)
            
            
               Council Directive 2011/97/EU of 5 December 2011 amending Directive 1999/31/EC as regards specific criteria for the storage of metallic mercury considered as waste (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 32d (Council Directive 1999/31/EC) of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement:
   ‘, as amended by:
   
               —
            
            
               
                  32011 L 0097: Council Directive 2011/97/EU of 5 December 2011 (OJ L 328, 10.12.2011, p. 49).’
            
         Article 2
   The texts of Directive 2011/97/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 2 February 2013, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (2), or on the day of the entry into force of Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 26/2013 of 1 February 2013 (3), 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, 1 February 2013.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The President
         
         Gianluca GRIPPA
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 328, 10.12.2011, p. 49.
   
      (2)  No constitutional requirements indicated.
   
      (3)  See page 32 of this Official Journal.