CELEX: 22018D0368
Language: en
Date: 2016-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 146/2016 of 8 July 2016 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2018/368]

15.3.2018   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 73/19
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 146/2016
      of 8 July 2016
      amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2018/368]
      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 Delegated Directive (EU) 2016/585 of 12 February 2016 amending, for the purposes of adapting to technical progress, Annex IV to Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards an exemption for lead, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) in spare parts recovered from and used for the repair or refurbishment of medical devices or electron microscopes (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 12q (Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Chapter XV of Annex II to the EEA Agreement:
      
                  ‘—
               
               
                  
                     32016 L 0585: Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2016/585 of 12 February 2016 (OJ L 101, 16.4.2016, p. 12).’
               
            Article 2
      The text of Delegated Directive (EU) 2016/585 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 9 July 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, 8 July 2016.
         
            
               For the EEA Joint Committee
            
            
               The President
            
            Bergdís ELLERTSDÓTTIR
         
      
      
         (1)  OJ L 101, 16.4.2016, p. 12.
      
         (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.