(1)

Regulation (EU) No 531/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2012 on roaming on public mobile communications networks within the Union (1) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(2)

Regulation (EU) No 531/2012 repeals Regulation (EC) No 717/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2), which is incorporated into the Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the Agreement.

(3)

Annex XI to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,

(a)

The following paragraph shall be added in Article 1(6):

“In the absence of a published exchange rate of the euro to the Icelandic króna by the European Central Bank on the date of the entry into force of the Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 173/2012 of 28 September 2012 incorporating this Regulation into the EEA Agreement, the exchange rate published by the Icelandic Central Bank on that same date shall apply.

For the purposes of the subsequent limits and maximum charges provided for in Article 7(2), Article 9(1) and Article 12(1), the reference exchange rates applied to determine the revised values shall, in the case of the Icelandic króna and in the absence of a corresponding publication by the European Central Bank, be those published by the Icelandic Central Bank two months preceding the date from which the revised values apply.”

(b)

The following paragraph shall be added in Article 1(7):

“In the absence of a published exchange rate of the euro to the Icelandic króna by the European Central Bank on the date of the entry into force of the Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 173/2012 of 28 September 2012 incorporating this Regulation into the EEA Agreement, the exchange rate published by the Icelandic Central Bank on that same date shall apply.

For the purposes of the subsequent limits and maximum charges provided for in Article 8(2), Article 10(2) and Article 13(2), the reference exchange rates applied to determine the revised values shall, in the case of the Icelandic króna and in the absence of a corresponding publication by the European Central Bank, be the average of the exchange rates published by the Icelandic Central Bank two, three and four months preceding the date from which the revised values apply.”.’