DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 20/2012

of 10 February 2012

amending Annex IX (Financial services) 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 IX to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 117/2011 of 21 October 2011 (1).

(2)	Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on credit rating agencies (2), as corrected by OJ L 350, 29.12.2009, p. 59, is to be incorporated into the Agreement,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The following point shall be inserted after point 31ea (Directive 2002/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex IX to the Agreement:

‘31eb.

32009 R 1060: Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on credit rating agencies (OJ L 302, 17.11.2009, p. 1), as corrected by OJ L 350, 29.12.2009, p. 59.’.

Article 2

The text of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009, as corrected by OJ L 350, 29.12.2009, p. 59, 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 11 February 2012, 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, 10 February 2012.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The Acting President

Gianluca GRIPPA

(1) OJ L 341, 22.12.2011, p. 81.

(2) OJ L 302, 17.11.2009, p. 1.

(*1) Constitutional requirements indicated.