CELEX: 22019D0340
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-05 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 246/2018 of 5 December 2018 amending Annex VI (Social security) to the EEA Agreement [2019/340]

28.2.2019   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 60/29
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 246/2018
         of 5 December 2018
         amending Annex VI (Social security) to the EEA Agreement [2019/340]
         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 Regulation (EU) 2017/492 of 21 March 2017 amending Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the coordination of social security systems and Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Annex VI to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            Annex VI to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:
            
                        1.
                     
                     
                        The following indent is added in points 1 (Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council) and 2 (Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council):
                        
                                    ‘—
                                 
                                 
                                    
                                       32017 R 0492: Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/492 of 21 March 2017 (OJ L 76, 22.3.2017, p. 13).’
                                 
                              
                  
                        2.
                     
                     
                        The following shall be added in adaptation (h) of point 1 (Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council):
                        ‘NORWAY
                        Old age income pension under the National Insurance Act (Chapter 20) and defined contribution pension schemes under the Act on Mandatory Occupational Pensions.’
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The text of Regulation (EU) 2017/492 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 December 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, 5 December 2018.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Oda Helen SLETNES
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 76, 22.3.2017, p. 13.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.