CELEX: 22021D0223
Language: en
Date: 2018-07-06 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 162/2018 of 6 July 2018 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2021/223]

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                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 67/55
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 162/2018
         of 6 July 2018
         amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2021/223]
         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 Decision (EU) 2017/1525 of 4 September 2017 amending Decision 2014/256/EU in order to prolong the validity of the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel to converted paper products (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Annex XX to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            The following is added in point 2zl (Commission Decision 2014/256/EU) of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement:
            ‘, as amended by:
            
                        —
                     
                     
                        
                           32017 D 1525: Commission Decision (EU) 2017/1525 of 4 September 2017 (OJ L 230, 6.9.2017, p. 28).’
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The text of Decision (EU) 2017/1525 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 7 July 2018, 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, 6 July 2018.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Oda Helen SLETNES
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 230, 6.9.2017, p. 28.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.