CELEX: 22020D1609
Language: en
Date: 2018-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 105/2018 of 31 May 2018 amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement [2020/1609]

5.11.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 368/4
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 105/2018
         of 31 May 2018
         amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement [2020/1609]
         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 Regulation (EU) 2017/1972 of 30 October 2017 amending Annexes I and III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards a surveillance programme for chronic wasting disease in cervids in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden and repealing Commission Decision 2007/182/EC (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Regulation (EU) 2017/1972 repeals Commission Decision 2007/182/EC (2) which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     This Decision concerns legislation regarding veterinary matters. Legislation regarding veterinary matters shall not apply to Liechtenstein as long as the application of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products is extended to Liechtenstein, as specified in the sectoral adaptations to Annex I to the EEA Agreement. This Decision is therefore not to apply to Liechtenstein.
                  
               
                     (4)
                  
                  
                     Annex I to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            Chapter I of Annex I to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:
            
                        (1)
                     
                     
                        the following indent is added in point 12 (Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council) in Part 7.1:
                        
                                    ‘—
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                       32017 R 1972: Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1972 of 30 October 2017 (OJ L 281, 31.10.2017, p. 14).’;
                                 
                              
                  
                        (2)
                     
                     
                        the following is added to the adaptation text in point 12 (Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council) in Part 7.1:
                        
                                    ‘J.
                                 
                                 
                                    In Annex III, Chapter A, Part III.A, Point 1.1 the following is added after the word “Lithuania”:
                                    “Norway,”.’;
                                 
                              
                  
                        (3)
                     
                     
                        the text of point 46 (Commission Decision 2007/182/EC) in Part 7.2 is deleted.
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The text of Regulation (EU) 2017/1972 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 1 June 2018, 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, 31 May 2018.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Claude MAERTEN
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 281, 31.10.2017, p. 14.
         
            (2)  OJ L 84, 24.3.2007, p. 373.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.