DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 125/2005

of 30 September 2005

amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement

THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’, and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)	Annex XXI to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 86/2005 of 10 June 2005 (1).

(2)	Commission Regulation (EC) No 179/2005 of 2 February 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 1917/2000 with regard to the transmission of data to the Commission (2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Point 16a (Commission Regulation (EC) No 1917/2000) of Annex XXI to the Agreement shall be amended as follow:

the following indent shall be added:

‘—	32005 R 0179: Commission Regulation (EC) No 179/2005 of 2 February 2005 (OJ L 30, 3.2.2005, p. 6).’;

the following adaptation shall be added:

‘(h)	Liechtenstein is exempted from providing the data required in Article 32(1)(a).’

Article 2

The text of Regulation (EC) No 179/2005 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 1 October 2005, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee (*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, 30 September 2005.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

HSH Prinz Nikolaus von LIECHTENSTEIN

(1) OJ L 268, 13.10.2005, p. 21.

(2) OJ L 30, 3.2.2005, p. 6.

(*1) No constitutional requirements indicated.