CELEX: 22008D0041
Language: en
Date: 2008-04-25 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 41/2008 of 25 April 2008 amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement

21.8.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 223/31
            
         
      DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   
   No 41/2008
   of 25 April 2008
   amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement
   THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,
   Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’, and in particular Article 98 thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Annex I to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 1/2008 of 1 February 2008 (1).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Commission Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 of 26 October 2007 on implementing rules for Council Directive 2000/75/EC as regards the control, monitoring, surveillance and restrictions on movements of certain animals of susceptible species in relation to bluetongue (2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 repeals Commission Decision 2005/393/EC (3), which is incorporated into the Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the Agreement.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               This Decision is not to apply to Iceland and Liechtenstein,
            
         HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
   Article 1
   Chapter I of Annex I to the Agreement shall be amended as follows:
   
               1.
            
            
               the following point shall be inserted after point 39 (Commission Decision 2007/598/EC) in Part 3.2:
               
                           ‘40.
                        
                        
                           
                              32007 R 1266: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 of 26 October 2007 on implementing rules for Council Directive 2000/75/EC as regards the control, monitoring, surveillance and restrictions on movements of certain animals of susceptible species in relation to bluetongue (OJ L 283, 27.10.2007, p. 37).
                           This act shall not apply to Iceland.’;
                        
                     
         
               2.
            
            
               the text of point 33 (Commission Decision 2005/393/EC) in Part 3.2 shall be deleted.
            
         Article 2
   The text of Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 in the Norwegian language, 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 April 2008, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee (4).
   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 April 2008.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The President
         
         Alan SEATTER
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 154, 12.6.2008, p. 1.
   
      (2)  OJ L 283, 27.10.2007, p. 37.
   
      (3)  OJ L 130, 24.5.2005, p. 22.
   
      (4)  No constitutional requirements indicated.