CELEX: 22017D2136
Language: en
Date: 2016-06-03 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 118/2016 of 3 June 2016 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2017/2136]

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                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 308/21
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 118/2016
      of 3 June 2016
      amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2017/2136]
      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) 2016/460 of 30 March 2016 amending Annexes IV and V to Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  Annex II to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
               
            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
      Article 1
      The following indent is added in point 12w (Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Chapter XV of Annex II to the EEA Agreement:
      
                  ‘—
               
               
                  
                     32016 R 0460: Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/460 of 30 March 2016 (OJ L 80, 31.3.2016, p. 17).’
               
            Article 2
      The text of Regulation (EU) 2016/460 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 4 June 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, 3 June 2016.
         
            
               For the EEA Joint Committee
            
            
               The President
            
            Claude MAERTEN
         
      
      
         (1)  OJ L 80, 31.3.2016, p. 17.
      
         (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.