CELEX: 22004D0103
Language: en
Date: 2004-07-09 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 103/2004 of 9 July 2004 amending Annex IX (Financial services) to the EEA Agreement

23.12.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 376/31
            
         
      DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   
   No 103/2004
   of 9 July 2004
   amending Annex IX (Financial services) 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 IX to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 73/2004 of 8 June 2004 (1).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Commission Regulation (EC) No 2273/2003 of 22 December 2003 implementing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards exemptions for buy-back programmes and stabilisation of financial instruments (2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Commission Directive 2003/124/EC of 22 December 2003 implementing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the definition and public disclosure of inside information and the definition of market manipulation (3) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               Commission Directive 2003/125/EC of 22 December 2003 implementing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the fair presentation of investment recommendations and the disclosure of conflicts of interest (4) is to be incorporated into the Agreement,
            
         HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
   Article 1
   The following points shall be inserted after point 29b (Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex IX to the Agreement:
   
      
                  ‘29c.
               
               
                  
                     32003 R 2273: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2273/2003 of 22 December 2003 implementing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards exemptions for buy-back programmes and stabilisation of financial instruments (OJ L 336, 23.12.2003, p. 33).
               
            
                  29d.
               
               
                  
                     32003 L 0124: Commission Directive 2003/124/EC of 22 December 2003 implementing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the definition and public disclosure of inside information and the definition of market manipulation (OJ L 339, 24.12.2003, p. 70).
               
            
                  29e.
               
               
                  
                     32003 L 0125: Commission Directive 2003/125/EC of 22 December 2003 implementing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the fair presentation of investment recommendations and the disclosure of conflicts of interest (OJ L 339, 24.12.2003, p. 73).’
               
            
   Article 2
   The texts of Regulation (EC) No 2273/2003 and Directives 2003/124/EC and 2003/125/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 (5).
   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 349, 25.11.2004, p. 30.
   
      (2)  OJ L 336, 23.12.2003, p. 33.
   
      (3)  OJ L 339, 24.12.2003, p. 70.
   
      (4)  OJ L 339, 24.12.2003, p. 73.
   
      (5)  Constitutional requirements indicated.