CELEX: 22018D0384
Language: en
Date: 2016-08-26 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 163/2016 of 26 August 2016 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2018/384]

15.3.2018   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 73/38
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 163/2016
      of 26 August 2016
      amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2018/384]
      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)
               
               
                  Directive 2014/90/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on marine equipment and repealing Council Directive 96/98/EC (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  Directive 2014/90/EU repeals with effect from 18 September 2016 Directive 96/98/EC (2), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement with effect from 18 September 2016.
               
            
                  (3)
               
               
                  Annex II to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
               
            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
      Article 1
      Chapter XXXII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  The following point is inserted after point 1 (Council Directive 96/98/EC):
                  
                              ‘2.
                           
                           
                              
                                 32014 L 0090: Directive 2014/90/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on marine equipment and repealing Council Directive 96/98/EC (OJ L 257, 28.8.2014, p. 146).’
                           
                        
            
                  2.
               
               
                  The text of point 1 (Council Directive 96/98/EC) shall be deleted with effect from 18 September 2016.
               
            Article 2
      The text of Directive 2014/90/EU 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 27 August 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, 26 August 2016.
         
            
               For the EEA Joint Committee
            
            
               The President
            
            Bergdís ELLERTSDÓTTIR
         
      
      
         (1)  OJ L 257, 28.8.2014, p. 146.
      
         (2)  OJ L 46, 17.2.1997, p. 25.
      
         (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.