CELEX: 22017D1883
Language: en
Date: 2016-03-18 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 53/2016 of 18 March 2016 amending Annex XI (Electronic communication, audiovisual services and information society) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1883]

19.10.2017   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 270/22
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 53/2016
      of 18 March 2016
      amending Annex XI (Electronic communication, audiovisual services and information society) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1883]
      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 Implementing Decision 2014/702/EU of 7 October 2014 amending Decision 2007/131/EC on allowing the use of the radio spectrum for equipment using ultra-wideband technology in a harmonised manner in the Community (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  Annex XI to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
               
            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
      Article 1
      Point 5cw (Commission Decision 2007/131/EC) of Annex XI to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:
      
                  (1)
               
               
                  the following text is added:
                  ‘The provisions of the Decision shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation:
                  Iceland and Norway shall be exempted from allowing the use of the 6,0 to 8,5 GHz band by equipment using ultra-wideband technology onboard aircraft.’;
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  the following indent is added:
                  
                              ‘—
                           
                           
                              
                                 32014 D 0702: Commission Implementing Decision 2014/702/EU of 7 October 2014 (OJ L 293, 9.10.2014, p. 48).’.
                           
                        
            Article 2
      The text of Implementing Decision 2014/702/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 19 March 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, 18 March 2016.
         
            
               For the EEA Joint Committee
            
            
               The President
            
            Claude MAERTEN
         
      
      
         (1)  OJ L 293, 9.10.2014, p. 48.
      
         (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.