DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 211/2013

of 8 November 2013

amending Protocol 47 (on the abolition of technical barriers to trade in wine) 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 Implementing Regulation (EU) No 144/2013 of 19 February 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 606/2009 as regards certain oenological practices and the applicable restrictions and Regulation (EC) No 436/2009 as regards the registering of these practices in the documents accompanying consignments of wine products and the wine sector registers to be kept (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

(2)	Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 172/2013 of 26 February 2013 on the removing of certain existing wine names from the register provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

(3)

This Decision concerns legislation regarding wine. Legislation regarding wine shall not apply to Liechtenstein as long as the application of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products is extended to Liechtenstein, as specified in the seventh paragraph of the introduction to Protocol 47 to the EEA Agreement. This Decision is therefore not to apply to Liechtenstein.

(4)	Protocol 47 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Appendix 1 to Protocol 47 to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:

(1)

the following is added in point 9 (Commission Regulation (EC) No 436/2009):

‘, as amended by:

—	32013 R 0144: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 144/2013 of 19 February 2013 (OJ L 47, 20.2.2013, p. 56).’

;

(2)

the following indent is added in point 10 (Commission Regulation (EC) No 606/2009):

‘—	32013 R 0144: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 144/2013 of 19 February 2013 (OJ L 47, 20.2.2013, p. 56).’

;

(3)

the following point is inserted after point 12 (Commission Regulation (EU) No 1022/2010):

‘13.	32013 R 0172: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 172/2013 of 26 February 2013 on the removing of certain existing wine names from the register provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 55, 27.2.2013, p. 20).’

Article 2

The texts of Implementing Regulations (EU) No 144/2013 and (EU) No 172/2013 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 9 November 2013, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*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, 8 November 2013.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Thórir IBSEN

(1) OJ L 47, 20.2.2013, p. 56.

(2) OJ L 55, 27.2.2013, p. 20.

(*1) No constitutional requirements indicated.