CELEX: 22019D1657
Language: en
Date: 2017-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 251/2017 of 15 December 2017 amending Protocol 47 (on the abolition of technical barriers to trade in wine) to the EEA Agreement [2019/1657]

3.10.2019   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 254/74
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 251/2017
         of 15 December 2017
         amending Protocol 47 (on the abolition of technical barriers to trade in wine) to the EEA Agreement [2019/1657]
         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 Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1353 of 19 May 2017 amending Regulation (EC) No 607/2009 as regards the wine grape varieties and their synonyms that may appear on wine labels (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     This Decision concerns legislation regarding wine. Legislation regarding wine 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 seventh paragraph of the introduction to Protocol 47 to the EEA Agreement. This Decision is therefore not to apply to Liechtenstein.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     Protocol 47 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            The following indent is added in point 11 (Commission Regulation (EC) No 607/2009) of Appendix I to Protocol 47 to the EEA Agreement:
            
                        ‘—
                     
                     
                        
                           32017 R 1353: Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1353 of 19 May 2017 (OJ L 190, 21.7.2017, p. 5).’
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The text of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1353 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 16 December 2017, 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, 15 December 2017.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Sabine MONAUNI
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 190, 21.7.2017, p. 5.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.