CELEX: 22004D0099
Language: en
Date: 2004-07-09 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 99/2004 of 9 July 2004 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement

23.12.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 376/23
            
         
      DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   
   No 99/2004
   of 9 July 2004
   amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) 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 II to the Agreement was amended by the Agreement on the participation of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the European Economic Area signed on 14 October 2003 in Luxemburg (1).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Directive 2002/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 2003 setting standards of quality and safety for the collection, testing, processing, storage and distribution of human blood and blood components and amending Directive 2001/83/EC (2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement,
            
         HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
   Article 1
   Chapter XIII of Annex II to the Agreement shall be amended as follows:
   
               1.
            
            
               The following point shall be inserted after point 15t (Commission Directive 2003/94/EC):
               
                           ‘15u.
                        
                        
                           
                              32002 L 0098: Directive 2002/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 2003 setting standards of quality and safety for the collection, testing, processing, storage and distribution of human blood and blood components and amending Directive 2001/83/EC (OJ L 33, 8.2.2003, p. 30).’
                        
                     
         
               2.
            
            
               The following indent shall be added in point 15q (Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council):
               
                           ‘—
                        
                        
                           
                              32002 L 0098: Directive 2002/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 2003 (OJ L 33, 8.2.2003, p. 30).’
                        
                     
         Article 2
   The texts of Directive 2002/98/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 10 July 2004, provided that all the notifications under Article 103 (1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee (3).
   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, 9 July 2004.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The President
         
         Kjartan JÓHANNSSON
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 130, 29.4.2004, p. 3.
   
      (2)  OJ L 33, 8.2.2003, p. 30.
   
      (3)  Constitutional requirements indicated.