CELEX: 22017D1315
Language: en
Date: 2016-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 32/2016 of 5 February 2016 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1315]

20.7.2017   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 189/51
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 32/2016
      of 5 February 2016
      amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1315]
      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 Decision 2014/895/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating the information referred to in Article 21(3) of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  Commission Implementing Decision 2014/896/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating information from Member States on the implementation of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (3)
               
               
                  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 text of point 23aa (deleted) is replaced by the following:
                  ‘32014 D 0896: Commission Implementing Decision 2014/896/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating information from Member States on the implementation of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (OJ L 355, 12.12.2014, p. 55).’;
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  the following point is inserted after point 23c (deleted):
                  
                              ‘23d.
                           
                           
                              
                                 32014 D 0895: Commission Implementing Decision 2014/895/EU of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating the information referred to in Article 21(3) of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (OJ L 355, 12.12.2014, p. 51).’
                           
                        
            Article 2
      The texts of Implementing Decisions 2014/895/EU and 2014/896/EU 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 6 February 2016, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1), or on the day of the entry into force of Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 193/2015 of 10 July 2015 (3), whichever is the later.
      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, 5 February 2016.
         
            
               For the EEA Joint Committee
            
            
               The President
            
            Claude MAERTEN
         
      
      
         (1)  OJ L 355, 12.12.2014, p. 51.
      
         (2)  OJ L 355, 12.12.2014, p. 55.
      
         (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.
      
         (3)  OJ L 8, 12.1.2017, p. 29.