CELEX: 22017D1304
Language: en
Date: 2016-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 21/2016 of 5 February 2016 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1304]

20.7.2017   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 189/30
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 21/2016
      of 5 February 2016
      amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1304]
      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) 2015/2115 of 23 November 2015 amending, for the purpose of adopting specific limit values for chemicals used in toys, Appendix C to Annex II to Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the safety of toys, as regards formamide (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  Commission Directive (EU) 2015/2116 of 23 November 2015 amending, for the purpose of adopting specific limit values for chemicals used in toys, Appendix C to Annex II to Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the safety of toys, as regards benzisothiazolinone (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (3)
               
               
                  Commission Directive (EU) 2015/2117 of 23 November 2015 amending, for the purpose of adopting specific limit values for chemicals used in toys, Appendix C to Annex II to Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the safety of toys, as regards chloromethylisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone, both individually and in a ratio of 3:1 (3) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (4)
               
               
                  Annex II to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
               
            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
      Article 1
      The following indents are added in point 1a (Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Chapter XXIII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement:
      
                  ‘—
               
               
                  
                     32015 L 2115: Commission Directive (EU) 2015/2115 of 23 November 2015 (OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 17),
               
            
                  —
               
               
                  
                     32015 L 2116: Commission Directive (EU) 2015/2116 of 23 November 2015 (OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 20),
               
            
                  —
               
               
                  
                     32015 L 2117: Commission Directive (EU) 2015/2117 of 23 November 2015 (OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 23).’
               
            Article 2
      The texts of Directives (EU) 2015/2115, (EU) 2015/2116 and (EU) 2015/2117 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).
      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 306, 24.11.2015, p. 17.
      
         (2)  OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 20.
      
         (3)  OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 23.
      
         (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.