CELEX: 22017D1314
Language: en
Date: 2016-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 31/2016 of 5 February 2016 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1314]

20.7.2017   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 189/50
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 31/2016
      of 5 February 2016
      amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1314]
      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 Directive (EU) 2015/1480 of 28 August 2015 amending several annexes to Directives 2004/107/EC and 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the rules concerning reference methods, data validation and location of sampling points for the assessment of ambient air quality (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 points 14c (Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) and 21ak (Directive 2004/107/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement:
      ‘, as amended by:
      
                  —
               
               
                  
                     32015 L 1480: Commission Directive (EU) 2015/1480 of 28 August 2015 (OJ L 226, 29.8.2015, p. 4).’
               
            Article 2
      The text of Directive (EU) 2015/1480 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 6 February 2016, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1).
      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, 5 February 2016.
         
            
               For the EEA Joint Committee
            
            
               The President
            
            Claude MAERTEN
         
      
      
         (1)  OJ L 226, 29.8.2015, p. 4.
      
         (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.