2013/11/EU: Council Decision of 18 December 2012 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, in the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Annex IV (Energy) and to Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement

The position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, in the EEA Joint Committee on the proposed amendments to Annex IV (Energy) and Annex XXI (Statistics) 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.

The text of point 7 (Council Directive 90/377/EEC) of Annex IV to the EEA Agreement is replaced by the following: ‘32008 L 0092: Directive 2008/92/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 concerning a Community procedure to improve the transparency of gas and electricity prices charged to industrial end-users (recast) (OJ L 298, 7.11.2008, p. 9) .

The text of point 26 (Council Directive 90/377/EEC) of Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement is replaced by the following: ‘32008 L 0092: Directive 2008/92/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 concerning a Community procedure to improve the transparency of gas and electricity prices charged to industrial end-users (recast) (OJ L 298, 7.11.2008, p. 9). The provisions of the Directive shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation: Liechtenstein shall be exempted from the obligations foreseen in this Directive, except for the obligation to provide the industrial price data for industrial end-user band IC for electricity and for industrial end-user band I3 for gas. This data (3 price levels: prices excluding taxes and levies; prices excluding VAT and other recoverable taxes; prices including all taxes, levies and VAT) shall be provided on a half yearly basis within 2 months after the reference period by using the appropriate questionnaires provided by Eurostat.’.

The texts of Directive 2008/92/EC 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 .

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