DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 232/2012

of 7 December 2012

amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement

THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Regulation (EU) No 461/2012 of 31 May 2012 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics and Commission Regulations (EC) No 1503/2006, (EC) No 657/2007 and (EC) No 1178/2008 as regards adaptations related to the removal of the industrial new orders variables (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

(2)	Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The following indent shall be added in points 2 (Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98) and 2c (Commission Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006) of Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement:

‘—	32012 R 0461: Commission Regulation (EU) No 461/2012 of 31 May 2012 (OJ L 142, 1.6.2012, p. 26).’.

Article 2

The text of Regulation (EU) No 461/2012 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 8 December 2012, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA 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, 7 December 2012.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Atle LEIKVOLL

(1) OJ L 142, 1.6.2012, p. 26.

(*1) No constitutional requirements indicated.