Council Decision (EU) 2022/831 of 23 May 2022 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee, concerning the amendment of Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement (Text with EEA relevance)

The position to be adopted on the Union’s behalf within the EEA Joint Committee concerning the amendment of Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) 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 date of its adoption.

Annex I to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows: 1. The following is inserted after point 59 (Commission Implementing Decision 2013/503/EU) in Part 7.2 of Chapter I: ‘60. 32019 D 0300: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/300 of 19 February 2019 establishing a general plan for crisis management in the field of the safety of food and feed (OJ L 50, 21.2.2019, p. 55). The provisions of the Decision shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation: Where the Commission identifies a situation referred to in Article 56(1) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 in which an EFTA State is directly concerned and sets up a crisis unit in accordance with Article 56(2) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, the crisis coordinator(s) designated by the EFTA State directly concerned and the crisis coordinator designated by the EFTA Surveillance Authority shall take part in the work of the crisis unit.’ 2. The following is inserted after point 47a (Commission Regulation (EU) No 16/2011) of Chapter II: ‘47b. 32019 D 0300: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/300 of 19 February 2019 establishing a general plan for crisis management in the field of the safety of food and feed (OJ L 50, 21.2.2019, p. 55). The provisions of the Decision shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation: Where the Commission identifies a situation referred to in Article 56(1) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 in which an EFTA State is directly concerned and sets up a crisis unit in accordance with Article 56(2) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, the crisis coordinator(s) designated by the EFTA State directly concerned and the crisis coordinator designated by the EFTA Surveillance Authority shall take part in the work of the crisis unit.’ 3. The text of points 31 (Commission Decision 2004/478/EC) in Part 7.2 of Chapter I and 43 (Commission Decision 2004/478/EC) of Chapter II is deleted.

The text of Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/300 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.