CELEX: 22020D0800
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 46/2019 of 29 March 2019 amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement [2020/800]

2.7.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 210/1
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 46/2019
         of 29 March 2019
         amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement [2020/800]
         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) 2018/723 of 16 May 2018 amending Annexes I and II to Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing as regards the approval of low atmospheric pressure stunning (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     This Decision concerns legislation regarding veterinary matters. Legislation regarding veterinary matters 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 is added in point 2a (Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009) in Part 9.1 of Chapter I of Annex I to the EEA Agreement:
            ‘, as amended by:
            
                        —
                     
                     
                        
                           32018 R 0723: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/723 of 16 May 2018 (OJ L 122, 17.5.2018, p. 11).’
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The text of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/723 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 30 March 2019, 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, 29 March 2019.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Claude MAERTEN
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 122, 17.5.2018, p. 11.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.