CELEX: 22009D0077
Language: en
Date: 2009-07-03 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 77/2009 of 3 July 2009 amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement

22.10.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 277/25
            
         
      DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   
   No 77/2009
   of 3 July 2009
   amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) 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 I to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 25/2009 of 17 March 2009 (1).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Commission Directive 2008/124/EC of 18 December 2008 limiting the marketing of seed of certain species of fodder plants and oil and fibre plants to seed which has been officially certified as ‘basic seed’ or ‘certified seed’ (Codified version) (2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Directive 2008/124/EC repeals Commission Directives 75/502/EEC (3) and 86/109/EEC (4) which are incorporated into the Agreement and are therefore to be repealed under the Agreement.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               This Decision is not to apply to Liechtenstein,
            
         HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
   Article 1
   Part 2 of Chapter III of Annex I to the Agreement shall be amended as follows:
   
               1.
            
            
               the text of points 1 (Commission Directive 75/502/EEC) and 4 (Commission Directive 86/109/EEC) shall be deleted;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               the following point shall be inserted after point 52 (Commission Directive 2008/62/EC):
               
                           ‘53.
                        
                        
                           
                              32008 L 0124: Commission Directive 2008/124/EC of 18 December 2008 limiting the marketing of seed of certain species of fodder plants and oil and fibre plants to seed which has been officially certified as “basic seed” or “certified seed” (Codified version) (OJ L 340, 19.12.2008, p. 73).’
                        
                     
         Article 2
   The text of Directive 2008/124/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 4 July 2009, 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, 3 July 2009.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The President
         
         Oda Helen SLETNES
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 130, 28.5.2009, p. 15.
   
      (2)  OJ L 340, 19.12.2008, p. 73.
   
      (3)  OJ L 228, 29.8.1975, p. 26.
   
      (4)  OJ L 93, 8.4.1986, p. 21.
   
      (5)  No constitutional requirements indicated.