2012/229/EU: Council Decision of 24 April 2012 on the position to be taken by the European Union in the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement

The position to be taken by the European Union in the EEA Joint Committee on the proposed amendment to Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement shall be based on the draft Decision of the EEA Joint Committee attached to this Decision.

This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.

Chapter XIII of Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows: (1) point 12 is replaced by the following: ‘12. 32009 R 0470: Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 laying down Community procedures for the establishment of residue limits of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin, repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 and amending Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 152, 16.6.2009, p. 11). The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation: (a) References to other acts in the Regulation shall be considered relevant to the extent and in the form that those acts are incorporated into the Agreement. (b) An EFTA State may request the Agency to issue an opinion according to Article 9(1), first paragraph of Article 11, Article 15(1) and Article 27(2). Such a request shall, in the first place, be addressed to the Commission which shall, where it considers that the request is of common interest, forward it to the Agency for further processing.’; (2) point 13 is replaced by the following: ‘13. 32010 R 0037: Commission Regulation (EU) No 37/2010 of 22 December 2009 on pharmacologically active substances and their classification regarding maximum residue limits in foodstuffs of animal origin (OJ L 15, 20.1.2010, p. 1), as corrected in OJ L 293, 11.11.2010, p. 72.’; (3) the text of point 14 (Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90) is deleted; (4) the following indent is added in points 15p (Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) and 15zb (Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council): ‘— 32009 R 0470: Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 (OJ L 152, 16.6.2009, p. 11).’.

The texts of Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 and of Regulation (EU) No 37/2010, as corrected in OJ L 293, 11.11.2010, p. 72, in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.

This Decision shall enter into force on …, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee .

This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.