CELEX: 22020D0340
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 322/2019 of 13 December 2019 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2020/340]

5.3.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 68/80
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 322/2019
         of 13 December 2019
         amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2020/340]
         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 Directive (EU) 2018/350 of 8 March 2018 amending Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the environmental risk assessment of genetically modified organisms (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Annex XX to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            The following indent is added in point 25d (Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement:
            
                        ‘—
                     
                     
                        
                           32018 L 0350: Commission Directive (EU) 2018/350 of 8 March 2018 (OJ L 67, 9.3.2018, p. 30).’
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The text of Directive (EU) 2018/350 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 67, 9.3.2018, p. 30.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.