CELEX: 22017D0519
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 212/2015 of 25 September 2015 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2017/519]

30.3.2017   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 85/29
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 212/2015
      of 25 September 2015
      amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2017/519]
      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 Directive (EU) 2015/565 of 8 April 2015 amending Directive 2006/86/EC as regards certain technical requirements for the coding of human tissues and cells (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  Commission Directive (EU) 2015/566 of 8 April 2015 implementing Directive 2004/23/EC as regards the procedures for verifying the equivalent standards of quality and safety of imported tissues and cells (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (3)
               
               
                  Annex II to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
               
            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
      Article 1
      Chapter XIII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:
      
                  (1)
               
               
                  the following is added in point 15z (Commission Directive 2006/86/EC):
                  ‘, as amended by:
                  
                              —
                           
                           
                              
                                 32015 L 0565: Commission Directive (EU) 2015/565 of 8 April 2015 (OJ L 93, 9.4.2015, p. 43).’;
                           
                        
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  the following point is inserted after point 16 (Regulation (EU) No 658/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council):
                  
                              ‘17.
                           
                           
                              
                                 32015 L 0566: Commission Directive (EU) 2015/566 of 8 April 2015 implementing Directive 2004/23/EC as regards the procedures for verifying the equivalent standards of quality and safety of imported tissues and cells (OJ L 93, 9.4.2015, p. 56).’
                           
                        
            Article 2
      The texts of Directives (EU) 2015/565 and (EU) 2015/566 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 26 September 2015, 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, 25 September 2015.
         
            
               For the EEA Joint Committee
            
            
               The President
            
            Ingrid SCHULERUD
         
      
      
         (1)  OJ L 93, 9.4.2015, p. 43.
      
         (2)  OJ L 93, 9.4.2015, p. 56.
      
         (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.