CELEX: 22020D0341
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 323/2019 of 13 December 2019 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2020/341]

5.3.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 68/81
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 323/2019
         of 13 December 2019
         amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2020/341]
         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 (EU) 2018/1790 of 16 November 2018 repealing Decision 2002/623/EC establishing guidance notes on the environmental risk assessment of genetically modified organisms (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1790 repeals Commission Decision 2002/623/EC (2), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     Annex XX to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            The text of point 25e (Commission Decision 2002/623/EC) of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement is deleted.
         
         
            Article 2
            The text of Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1790 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 14 December 2019, 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, 13 December 2019.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Gunnar PÁLSSON
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 293, 20.11.2018, p. 32.
         
            (2)  OJ L 200, 30.7.2002, p. 22.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.