CELEX: 22019D1645
Language: en
Date: 2017-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 237/2017 of 15 December 2017 amending Annex VII (Recognition of professional qualifications) to the EEA Agreement [2019/1645]

3.10.2019   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 254/50
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 237/2017
         of 15 December 2017
         amending Annex VII (Recognition of professional qualifications) to the EEA Agreement [2019/1645]
         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 Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/983 of 24 June 2015 on the procedure for issuance of the European Professional Card and the application of the alert mechanism pursuant to Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Annex VII to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            The following point is inserted after point 1a (Commission Decision 2007/172/EC) of Annex VII to the EEA Agreement:
            
                        ‘1b.
                     
                     
                        
                           32015 R 0983: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/983 of 24 June 2015 on the procedure for issuance of the European Professional Card and the application of the alert mechanism pursuant to Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 159, 25.6.2015, p. 27).’
                     
                  
         
            Article 2
            The text of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/983 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 16 December 2017, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1), or on the day of the entry into force of Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 94/2017 of 5 May 2017 (2), whichever is the later.
         
         
            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, 15 December 2017.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Sabine MONAUNI
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 159, 25.6.2015, p. 27.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.
         
            (2)  OJ L 36, 7.2.2019, p. 52.