CELEX: 22020D0337
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 319/2019 of 13 December 2019 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2020/337]

5.3.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 68/76
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 319/2019
         of 13 December 2019
         amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2020/337]
         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) 2019/1134 of 1 July 2019 amending Decision 2009/300/EC and Decision (EU) 2015/2099, as regards the period of validity of the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel to certain products, and of the related assessment and verification requirements (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
            Annex XX to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:
            
                        (1)
                     
                     
                        the following is added in point 2d (Commission Decision (EU) 2015/2099):
                        ‘, as amended by:
                        
                                    —
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                       32019 D 1134: Commission Decision (EU) 2019/1134 of 1 July 2019 (OJ L 179, 3.7.2019, p. 25).’;
                                 
                              
                  
                        (2)
                     
                     
                        the following indent is added in point 2j (Commission Decision 2009/300/EC):
                        
                                    ‘—
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                       32019 D 1134: Commission Decision (EU) 2019/1134 of 1 July 2019 (OJ L 179, 3.7.2019, p. 25).’
                                 
                              
                  
         
            Article 2
            The text of Decision (EU) 2019/1134 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 14 December 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, 13 December 2019.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Gunnar PÁLSSON
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 179, 3.7.2019, p. 25.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.