CELEX: 22012D0118
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-15 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 118/2012 of 15 June 2012 amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement

4.10.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 270/41
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   No 118/2012
   of 15 June 2012
   amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement
   THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,
   Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area (the EEA Agreement), and in particular Article 98 thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 98/2012 of 30 April 2012 (1).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2011 concerning European statistics on tourism (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 repealed Council Directive 95/57/EC (3) which is incorporated to Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   The text of point 7c (Council Directive 95/57/EC) of Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement shall be replaced by the following:
   
      ‘32011 R 0692: Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2011 concerning European statistics on tourism and repealing Council Directive 95/57/EC (OJ L 192, 22.7.2011, p. 17).
      The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation:
      Liechtenstein is exempted from collecting the data required by Annex II to this Regulation.’
   
   Article 2
   The text of Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 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 16 June 2012, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee (4).
   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, 15 June 2012.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The Acting President
         
         Gianluca GRIPPA
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 248, 13.9.2012, p. 36.
   
      (2)  OJ L 192, 22.7.2011, p. 17.
   
      (3)  OJ L 291, 6.12.1995, p. 32.
   
      (4)  No constitutional requirements indicated.