DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 150/2012

of 13 July 2012

amending Annex XX (Environment) 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 XX to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 117/2012 of 15 June 2012 (1).

(2)	Commission Implementing Decision 2011/632/EU of 21 September 2011 establishing a questionnaire to be used for reporting on the implementation of Directive 2000/76/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the incineration of waste (2) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(3)	Implementing Decision 2011/632/EU repeals, with effect from 1 January 2013, Commission Decision 2010/731/EU (3), which is incorporated into the Agreement, and which is consequently to be repealed under the Agreement with effect from 1 January 2013,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annex XX to the Agreement shall be amended as follows:

(1)

the following point shall be inserted after point 32ffa (Council Regulation (EU) No 333/2011):

‘32fg.

32011 D 0632: Commission Implementing Decision 2011/632/EU of 21 September 2011 establishing a questionnaire to be used for reporting on the implementation of Directive 2000/76/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the incineration of waste (OJ L 247, 24.9.2011, p. 54).’;

(2)	the text of point 32fd (Commission Decision 2010/731/EU) shall be deleted with effect from 1 January 2013.

Article 2

The text of Implementing Decision 2011/632/EU 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 14 July 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, 13 July 2012.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Atle LEIKVOLL

(1) OJ L 270, 4.10.2012, p. 40.

(2) OJ L 247, 24.9.2011, p. 54.

(3) OJ L 315, 1.12.2010, p. 38.

(*1) No constitutional requirements indicated.