CELEX: 22009D0039
Language: en
Date: 2009-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 39/2009 of 17 March 2009 amending Annex XXII (Company law) to the EEA Agreement

28.5.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 130/34
            
         
      DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   
   No 39/2009
   of 17 March 2009
   amending Annex XXII (Company law) to the EEA Agreement
   THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,
   Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’, and in particular Article 98 thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Annex XXII to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 20/2009 of 5 February 2009 (1).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Commission Recommendation 2008/473/EC of 5 June 2008 concerning the limitation of the civil liability of statutory auditors and audit firms (2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement,
            
         HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
   Article 1
   The following point shall be inserted after point 15 (Commission Recommendation 2005/162/EC) of Annex XXII to the Agreement:
   
               ‘16.
            
            
               
                  32008 H 0473: Commission Recommendation 2008/473/EC of 5 June 2008 concerning the limitation of the civil liability of statutory auditors and audit firms (OJ L 162, 21.6.2008, p. 39).’.
            
         Article 2
   The text of Recommendation 2008/473/EC 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 18 March 2009, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee (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, 17 March 2009.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The President
         
         Alan SEATTER
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 73, 19.3.2009, p. 59.
   
      (2)  OJ L 162, 21.6.2008, p. 39.
   
      (3)  No constitutional requirements indicated.
   
      Joint Declaration by the Contracting Parties to Decision No 39/2009 incorporating Recommendation 2008/473/EC into the Agreement
      
         ‘Commission Recommendation 2008/473/EC of 5 June 2008 concerning the limitation of the civil liability of statutory auditors and audit firms deals with the civil liability of auditors and audit firms. The incorporation of this Recommendation is without prejudice to the scope of the EEA Agreement.’