CELEX: 22018D1179
Language: en
Date: 2016-12-02 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 241/2016 of 2 December 2016 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing, and certification) and Annex X (Services in general) to the EEA Agreement [2018/1179]

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                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 215/40
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 241/2016
         of 2 December 2016
         amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing, and certification) and Annex X (Services in general) to the EEA Agreement [2018/1179]
         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 Recommendation 2013/461/EU of 17 September 2013 on the principles governing SOLVIT (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Recommendation 2013/461/EU replaces Commission Recommendation 2001/893/EC (2), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be replaced under the EEA Agreement.
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     Annex II and Annex X to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            Under the heading ‘ACTS OF WHICH THE CONTRACTING PARTIES SHALL TAKE NOTE’ in Chapter XX of Annex II to the EEA Agreement, the text of point 5 (Commission Recommendation 2001/893/EC) is deleted.
         
         
            Article 2
            The following is inserted after point 3a (Commission Implementing Decision 2014/89/EU) of Annex X to the EEA Agreement:
            
               ‘ACTS OF WHICH THE CONTRACTING PARTIES SHALL TAKE NOTE
               
               
                        
                           1.
                        
                        
                           
                              32013 H 0461: Commission Recommendation 2013/461/EU of 17 September 2013 on the principles governing SOLVIT (OJ L 249, 19.9.2013, p. 10).’
                        
                     
         
         
            Article 3
            The text of Recommendation 2013/461/EU 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 4
            This Decision shall enter into force on 3 December 2016, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1).
         
         
            Article 5
            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, 2 December 2016.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Bergdís ELLERTSDÓTTIR
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 249, 19.9.2013, p. 10.
         
            (2)  OJ L 331, 15.12.2001, p. 79.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.