CELEX: 22017D1288
Language: en
Date: 2016-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 5/2016 of 5 February 2016 amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1288]

20.7.2017   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 189/9
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 5/2016
      of 5 February 2016
      amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1288]
      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 Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1761 of 1 October 2015 amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 378/2005 as regards the Community Reference Laboratory reports, fees and the laboratories listed in Annex II thereto (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  This Decision concerns legislation regarding feedingstuffs. Legislation regarding feedingstuffs shall not apply to Liechtenstein as long as the application of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products is extended to Liechtenstein, as specified in the sectoral adaptations to Annex I to the EEA Agreement. This Decision is therefore not to apply to Liechtenstein.
               
            
                  (3)
               
               
                  Annex I to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
               
            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
      Article 1
      The following indent is added in point 1zzh (Commission Regulation (EC) No 378/2005) of Chapter II of Annex I to the EEA Agreement:
      
                  ‘—
               
               
                  
                     32015 R 1761: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1761 of 1 October 2015 (OJ L 257, 2.10.2015, p. 30).’
               
            Article 2
      The text of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1761 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 257, 2.10.2015, p. 30.
      
         (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.