CELEX: 22021D0312
Language: en
Date: 2018-09-21 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 198/2018 of 21 September 2018 amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement [2021/312]

4.3.2021   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 75/36
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 198/2018
         of 21 September 2018
         amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement [2021/312]
         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 Regulation (EU) 2016/2119 of 2 December 2016 amending Regulation (EC) No 471/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulation (EU) No 113/2010 as regards the adaptation of the list of customs procedures and the definition of the data (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Commission Regulations (EC) No 2020/2001 (2), (EC) No 1779/2002 (3), (EC) No 2081/2003 (4) and (EC) No 750/2005 (5), which are incorporated into the EEA Agreement, have become obsolete and are consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:
            
                        (1)
                     
                     
                        point 8 (Regulation (EC) No 471/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council) shall be amended as follows:
                        
                                    (a)
                                 
                                 
                                    the following indent is added:
                                    
                                                ‘—
                                             
                                             
                                                
                                                   32016 R 2119: Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2119 of 2 December 2016 (OJ L 329, 3.12.2016, p. 66).’;
                                             
                                          
                              
                                    (b)
                                 
                                 
                                    the text of adaptation (b) is replaced by the following:
                                    ‘For the EFTA States, all references to the customs scheme of Centralised Clearance and related provisions shall not be relevant.’;
                                 
                              
                  
                        (2)
                     
                     
                        point 8ab (Commission Regulation (EU) No 113/2010) shall be amended as follows:
                        
                                    (a)
                                 
                                 
                                    the following is added:
                                    ‘, as amended by:
                                    
                                                —
                                             
                                             
                                                
                                                   32016 R 2119: Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2119 of 2 December 2016 (OJ L 329, 3.12.2016, p. 66).’;
                                             
                                          
                              
                                    (b)
                                 
                                 
                                    the text of adaptation (c) is replaced by the following:
                                    ‘References to the Economic Operator Registration Identification system are not applicable to the EFTA States.’;
                                 
                              
                  
                        (3)
                     
                     
                        points 9 (Commission Regulation (EC) No 2020/2001) to 9c (Commission Regulation (EC) No 750/2005) are deleted.
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The text of Regulation (EU) 2016/2119 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 22 September 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, 21 September 2018.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Oda Helen SLETNES
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 329, 3.12.2016, p. 66.
         
            (2)  OJ L 273, 16.10.2001, p. 6.
         
            (3)  OJ L 269, 5.10.2002, p. 6.
         
            (4)  OJ L 313, 28.11.2003, p. 11.
         
            (5)  OJ L 126, 19.5.2005, p. 12.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.