CELEX: 22020D0338
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 320/2019 of 13 December 2019 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2020/338]

5.3.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 68/77
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 320/2019
         of 13 December 2019
         amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2020/338]
         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 Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 of 19 December 2018 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2067 of 19 December 2018 on the verification of data and on the accreditation of verifiers pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 repeals, with effect from 1 January 2021, Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 (3), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement with effect from 1 January 2021.
                  
               
                     (4)
                  
                  
                     Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2067 repeals Commission Regulation (EU) No 600/2012 (4), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (5)
                  
                  
                     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 indent is added in point 21apg (Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012):
                        
                                    ‘—
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                       32018 R 2066: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 of 19 December 2018 (OJ L 334, 31.12.2018, p. 1).’
                                 
                              
                  
                        2.
                     
                     
                        The following points are inserted after point 21api (Commission Implementing Decision 2014/389/EU):
                        
                                    ‘21apj.
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                       32018 R 2066: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 of 19 December 2018 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 (OJ L 334, 31.12.2018, p. 1).
                                 
                              
                                    21apk.
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                       32018 R 2067: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2067 of 19 December 2018 on the verification of data and on the accreditation of verifiers pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 334, 31.12.2018, p. 94).’
                                 
                              
                  
                        3.
                     
                     
                        The text of point 21apf (Commission Regulation (EU) No 600/2012) is deleted.
                     
                  
                        4.
                     
                     
                        The text of point 21apg (Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012) shall be deleted with effect from 1 January 2021.
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The texts of Implementing Regulations (EU) 2018/2066 and (EU) 2018/2067 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 334, 31.12.2018, p. 1.
         
            (2)  OJ L 334, 31.12.2018, p. 94.
         
            (3)  OJ L 181, 12.7.2012, p. 30.
         
            (4)  OJ L 181, 12.7.2012, p. 1.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.