CELEX: 22008D0097
Language: en
Date: 2008-09-26 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 97/2008 of 26 September 2008 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement

20.11.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 309/17
            
         
      DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   
   No 97/2008
   of 26 September 2008
   amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) 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 II to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 132/2007 of 26 October 2007 (1).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Directive 2008/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 on the field of vision and windscreen wipers for wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors (2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Directive 2008/2/EC repeals Council Directive 74/347/EEC (3) which is incorporated into the Agreement and which is therefore to be repealed under the Agreement,
            
         HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
   Article 1
   Chapter II of Annex II to the Agreement shall be amended as follows:
   
               1.
            
            
               The text of point 5 (Council Directive 74/347/EEC) shall be deleted;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The following point shall be inserted after point 29 (Directive 2000/25/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council):
               
                           ‘30.
                        
                        
                           
                              32008 L 0002: Directive 2008/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 on the field of vision and windscreen wipers for wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors (OJ L 24, 29.1.2008, p. 30).’
                        
                     
         Article 2
   The text of Directive 2008/2/EC 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 27 September 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, 26 September 2008.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The President
         
         H.S.H. Prinz Nikolaus von LIECHTENSTEIN
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 100, 10.4.2008, p. 1.
   
      (2)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2008, p. 30.
   
      (3)  OJ L 191, 15.7.1974, p. 5.
   
      (4)  No constitutional requirements indicated.