CELEX: 22019D1058
Language: en
Date: 2017-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 170/2017 of 22 September 2017 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2019/1058]

27.6.2019   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 174/32
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 170/2017
         of 22 September 2017
         amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2019/1058]
         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 Regulation (EU) 2017/999 of 13 June 2017 amending Annex XIV to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1000 of 13 June 2017 amending Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) as regards perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related substances (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     Annex II to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            The following indents are added in point 12zc (Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Chapter XV of Annex II to the EEA Agreement:
            
                        ‘—
                     
                     
                        
                           32017 R 0999: Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/999 of 13 June 2017 (OJ L 150, 14.6.2017, p. 7),
                     
                  
                        —
                     
                     
                        
                           32017 R 1000: Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1000 of 13 June 2017 (OJ L 150, 14.6.2017, p. 14).’
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The texts of Regulations (EU) 2017/999 and (EU) 2017/1000 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 23 September 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, 22 September 2017.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Sabine MONAUNI
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 150, 14.6.2017, p. 7.
         
            (2)  OJ L 150, 14.6.2017, p. 14.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.