CELEX: 22020D0085
Language: en
Date: 2018-03-23 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 68/2018 of 23 March 2018 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2020/85]

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                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 26/66
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 68/2018
         of 23 March 2018
         amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2020/85]
         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 Decision (EU) 2017/2285 of 6 December 2017 Amending the user’s guide setting out the steps needed to participate in EMAS, under Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the voluntary participation by organisations in a Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS) (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 point is inserted after point 1eaj (Commission Decision (EU) 2017/1508) of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement:
            
                        ‘1eak.
                     
                     
                        
                           32017 D 2285: Commission Decision (EU) 2017/2285 of 6 December 2017 Amending the user’s guide setting out the steps needed to participate in EMAS, under Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the voluntary participation by organisations in a Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS) (OJ L 328, 12.12.2017, p. 38).’
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The text of Decision (EU) 2017/2285 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 24 March 2018, 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, 23 March 2018.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Claude MAERTEN
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 328, 12.12.2017, p. 38.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.