DECISION OF THE EFTA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY

No 319/05/COL

of 14 December 2005

on amendments to College Decision No 195/04/COL on the implementing provisions referred to under Article 27 in Part II of Protocol 3 to the Agreement between the EFTA States on the Establishment of a Surveillance Authority and a Court of Justice

THE EFTA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY,

HAVING REGARD TO the Agreement on the European Economic Area (1), in particular to Articles 61 to 63 and Protocol 26 thereof,

HAVING REGARD TO the Agreement between the EFTA States on the Establishment of a Surveillance Authority and a Court of Justice (2), in particular to Articles 5(2)(a) and 24 thereof and Article 27 in Part II of Protocol 3 to the Surveillance and Court Agreement,

WHEREAS on 14 July 2004, the EFTA Surveillance Authority adopted Decision No 195/04/COL on the implementing provisions referred to under Article 27 in Part II of Protocol 3 to the Surveillance and Court Agreement,

WHEREAS the EFTA Surveillance Authority, as required by Article 3(1) of Decision No 195/04/COL, will implement a electronic notification system as of 1 January 2006,

WHEREAS the EFTA States, for the purposes of submission of electronic notifications and related correspondence, have designated one contact point,

AFTER CONSULTING the Advisory Committee on State Aid by letter dated 30 November 2005 in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 29 in Part II of Protocol 3 to the Surveillance and Court Agreement,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

1a.

Article 3(1) of Decision No 195/04/COL shall be replaced by the following,

‘The notification shall be transmitted to the Authority by the Mission to the European Union of the EFTA State concerned or any other contact point designated by the EFTA State. It shall be addressed to the Competition and State Aid Directorate of the Authority. The Competition and State Aid Directorate of the Authority may nominate contact points for the receipt of notifications’.

1b.

Article 3(6) of Decision No 195/04/COL shall be replaced by the following,

‘After consulting the EFTA States, the Authority shall publish in the EEA Section of and the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union details of the arrangements for the electronic transmission of notifications, including addresses together with any necessary arrangements for the protection of confidential information’.

1c.	The second sentence of the fourth paragraph of Annex I to Decision No 195/04/COL shall be replaced by the following, ‘The completed form shall be transmitted to the Authority by the Mission to the European Union of the EFTA State concerned or any other contact point designated by the EFTA State’.

1d.

In the Annexes to Decision No 195/04/COL, the reference to the Mission to the European Union of the EFTA State concerned or the EEA Coordination Unit of the EFTA State shall be read as referring to the Mission to the European Union of the EFTA State concerned or any other contact point designated by the EFTA State.

2.	This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway.

3.	This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its adoption by the Authority.

4.	This Decision is authentic in the English language.

Done at Brussels, 14 December 2005.

For the EFTA Surveillance Authority

Einar M. BULL

President

Kurt JÄGER

College Member

(1) Hereinafter referred to as the EEA Agreement.

(2) Hereinafter referred to as the Surveillance and Court Agreement.