CELEX: 22018D1777
Language: en
Date: 2017-02-03 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 43/2017 of 3 February 2017 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2018/1777]

22.11.2018   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 297/54
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 43/2017
         of 3 February 2017
         amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2018/1777]
         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 Decision (EU) 2016/2003 of 14 November 2016 amending Decisions 2009/300/EC, 2011/263/EU, 2011/264/EU, 2011/382/EU, 2011/383/EU, 2012/720/EU and 2012/721/EU in order to prolong the period of validity of the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel to certain products (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Annex XX to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            The following indent is inserted in points 2e (Commission Decision 2011/264/EU), 2h (Commission Decision 2011/263/EU), 2j (Commission Decision 2009/300/EC), 2r (Commission Decision 2011/382/EU), 2t (Commission Decision 2011/383/EU), 2zg (Commission Decision 2012/720/EU) and 2zh (Commission Decision 2012/721/EU) of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement:
            
                        ‘—
                     
                     
                        
                           32016 D 2003: Commission Decision (EU) 2016/2003 of 14 November 2016 (OJ L 308, 16.11.2016, p. 59).’
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The text of Decision (EU) 2016/2003 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 4 February 2017, 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, 3 February 2017.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Claude MAERTEN
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 308, 16.11.2016, p. 59.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.