CELEX: 22016D1280
Language: en
Date: 2015-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 97/2015 of 30 April 2015 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1280]

4.8.2016   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 211/37
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 97/2015
      of 30 April 2015
      amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2016/1280]
      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 (EU) 2015/249 of 10 February 2015 extending the validity of Decision 2006/502/EC requiring Member States to take measures to ensure that only lighters which are child-resistant are placed on the market and to prohibit the placing on the market of novelty lighters (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  Annex II to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
               
            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
      Article 1
      The following indent is added in point 3k (Commission Decision 2006/502/EC) of Chapter XIX of Annex II to the EEA Agreement:
      
                  ‘—
               
               
                  
                     32015 D 0249: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/249 of 10 February 2015 (OJ L 41, 17.2.2015, p. 41).’
               
            Article 2
      The text of Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/249 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 May 2015, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*).
      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, 30 April 2015.
         
            
               For the EEA Joint Committee
            
            
               The President
            
            Gianluca GRIPPA
         
      
      
         (1)  OJ L 41, 17.2.2015, p. 41.
      
         (*)  No constitutional requirements indicated.