CELEX: 22017D1313
Language: en
Date: 2016-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 30/2016 of 5 February 2016 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1313]

20.7.2017   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 189/48
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 30/2016
      of 5 February 2016
      amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2017/1313]
      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 Regulation (EU) No 1311/2014 of 10 December 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 as regards the definition of an INSPIRE metadata element (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  Commission Regulation (EU) No 1312/2014 of 10 December 2014 amending Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data services (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (3)
               
               
                  Annex XX to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
               
            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
      Article 1
      Annex XX to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  The following indent shall be added in point 1jc (Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009) with effect from 31 December 2017:
                  
                              ‘—
                           
                           
                              
                                 32014 R 1311: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1311/2014 of 10 December 2014 (OJ L 354, 11.12.2014, p. 6).’
                           
                        
            
                  2.
               
               
                  The following is added in point 1je (Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010):
                  
                              ‘—
                           
                           
                              
                                 32014 R 1312: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1312/2014 of 10 December 2014 (OJ L 354, 11.12.2014, p. 8).
                           
                        The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation:
                  With regard to the EFTA States, the date mentioned in Article 14a shall be understood to include an additional period of three years.’
               
            Article 2
      The texts of Regulations (EU) No 1311/2014 and (EU) No 1312/2014 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 6 February 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, 5 February 2016.
         
            
               For the EEA Joint Committee
            
            
               The President
            
            Claude MAERTEN
         
      
      
         (1)  OJ L 354, 11.12.2014, p. 6.
      
         (2)  OJ L 354, 11.12.2014, p. 8.
      
         (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.