CELEX: 22021D0220
Language: en
Date: 2018-07-06 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 159/2018 of 6 July 2018 amending Annex XVIII (Health and Safety at Work, Labour Law, and Equal Treatment for Men and Women) to the EEA Agreement [2021/220]

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                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 67/52
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 159/2018
         of 6 July 2018
         amending Annex XVIII (Health and Safety at Work, Labour Law, and Equal Treatment for Men and Women) to the EEA Agreement [2021/220]
         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) 2017/164 of 31 January 2017 establishing a fourth list of indicative occupational exposure limit values pursuant to Council Directive 98/24/EC, and amending Commission Directives 91/322/EEC, 2000/39/EC and 2009/161/EU (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Annex XVIII to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            Annex XVIII to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:
            
                        (1)
                     
                     
                        the following indent is added in points 3a (Commission Directive 91/322/EEC) and 16j (Commission Directive 2000/39/EC):
                        
                                    ‘—
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                       32017 L 0164: Commission Directive (EU) 2017/164 of 31 January 2017 (OJ L 27, 1.2.2017, p. 115).’;
                                 
                              
                  
                        (2)
                     
                     
                        the following is added in point 16jf (Commission Directive 2009/161/EU):
                        ‘, as amended by:
                        
                                    —
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                       32017 L 0164: Commission Directive (EU) 2017/164 of 31 January 2017 (OJ L 27, 1.2.2017, p. 115).’;
                                 
                              
                  
                        (3)
                     
                     
                        the following point is inserted after point 16jg (Council Directive 2010/32/EU):
                        
                                    ‘16jh.
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                       32017 L 0164: Commission Directive (EU) 2017/164 of 31 January 2017 establishing a fourth list of indicative occupational exposure limit values pursuant to Council Directive 98/24/EC, and amending Commission Directives 91/322/EEC, 2000/39/EC and 2009/161/EU (OJ L 27, 1.2.2017, p. 115).’.
                                 
                              
                  
         
            Article 2
            The text of Directive (EU) 2017/164 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 7 July 2018, 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, 6 July 2018.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Oda Helen SLETNES
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 27, 1.2.2017, p. 115.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.