CELEX: 22011D0121
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-21 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 121/2011 of 21 October 2011 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement

22.12.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 341/86
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   No 121/2011
   of 21 October 2011
   amending Annex XX (Environment) 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, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’, and in particular Article 98 thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Annex XX to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 93/2011 of 20 July 2011 (1).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Directive 2008/50/EC repeals Council Directive 96/62/EC (3), Council Directive 1999/30/EC (4), Directive 2000/69/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (5), Directive 2002/3/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (6) and Council Decision 97/101/EC (7), which are incorporated into the Agreement and which are consequently to be deleted from the Agreement,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISON:
   Article 1
   Annex XX to the Agreement shall be amended as follows:
   
               (1)
            
            
               the following point shall be inserted after point 14b (Council Decision 97/101/EC):
               
                           ‘14c.
                        
                        
                           
                              32008 L 0050: Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (OJ L 152, 11.6.2008, p. 1).’;
                        
                     
         
               (2)
            
            
               the texts of points 13d (Directive 2000/69/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council), 13e (Council Directive 1999/30/EC), 14a (Council Directive 96/62/EC), 14b (Council Decision 97/101/EC) and 21ag (Directive 2002/3/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) shall be deleted.
            
         Article 2
   The text of Directive 2008/50/EC 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 November 2011, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee (8).
   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, 21 October 2011.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The President
         
         Kurt JÄGER
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 262, 6.10.2011, p. 65.
   
      (2)  OJ L 152, 11.6.2008, p. 1.
   
      (3)  OJ L 296, 21.11.1996, p. 55.
   
      (4)  OJ L 163, 29.6.1999, p. 41.
   
      (5)  OJ L 313, 13.12.2000, p. 12.
   
      (6)  OJ L 67, 9.3.2002, p. 14.
   
      (7)  OJ L 35, 5.2.1997, p. 14.
   
      (8)  Constitutional requirements indicated.