(1)

The Agreement on the European Economic Area (2) (‘the EEA Agreement’) entered into force on 1 January 1994.

(2)

Pursuant to Article 98 of the EEA Agreement, the EEA Joint Committee may decide to amend, inter alia, Annex II thereto.

(3)

Annex II to the EEA Agreement contains specific provisions and arrangements concerning technical regulations, standards, testing and certification.

(4)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 788/2012 of 31 August 2012 concerning a coordinated multiannual control programme of the Union for 2013, 2014 and 2015 to ensure compliance with maximum residue levels of pesticides and to assess the consumer exposure to pesticide residues in and on food of plant and animal origin (3) should be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

(5)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1274/2011 of 7 December 2011 concerning a coordinated multiannual control programme of the Union for 2012, 2013 and 2014 to ensure compliance with maximum residue levels of pesticides and to assess the consumer exposure to pesticide residues in and on food of plant and animal origin (4) is incorporated into the EEA Agreement with certain adaptations for Iceland and Norway.

(6)

Those adaptations should be carried over to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 788/2012. They concern the number of pesticides to be monitored by Iceland and the number of samples of each product to be taken and analysed by Iceland and Norway.

(7)

Annex II to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly.

(8)

The position of the Union in the EEA Joint Committee should be based on the attached draft Decision,

(1)

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1141/2010 of 7 December 2010 laying down the procedure for the renewal of the inclusion of a second group of active substances in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC and establishing the list of those substances (2) provides for the supplementary summary dossier, as updated to take into account additional information requested by the rapporteur Member State, to be submitted by the applicant to the European Food Safety Authority (hereinafter ‘the Authority’), the other Member States and, on request, to the Commission when the renewal assessment report is submitted to the Commission.

(2)

The practice shows that the large majority of dossiers for the approval or renewal of the approval is evaluated by the Authority. To allow the Authority to give its conclusion on the entire risk assessment or on specific points, it is, however, necessary that the supplementary complete dossier is submitted to the Authority in addition to the supplementary summary dossier. The supplementary complete dossier should also be submitted to the Member States. The Commission should have the possibility to request the submission of the supplementary complete dossier.

(3)

Regulation (EU) No 1141/2010 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(4)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

(1)

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 lays down, pursuant to the outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the standard values for imports from third countries, in respect of the products and periods stipulated in Annex XVI, Part A thereto.

(2)

The standard import value is calculated each working day, in accordance with Article 136(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, taking into account variable daily data. Therefore this Regulation should enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union,

(1)

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1273/2011 opened and provided for the administration of certain import tariff quotas for rice and broken rice, broken down by country of origin and split into several subperiods in accordance with Annex I to that Implementing Regulation.

(2)

April is the second subperiod for the quota provided for under Article 1(1)(a) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1273/2011.

(3)

The notifications sent in accordance with point (a) of Article 8 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1273/2011 show that, for the quota with order number 09.4130, the applications lodged in the first 10 working days of April 2013 under Article 4(1) of that Implementing Regulation cover a quantity greater than that available. The extent to which import licences may be issued should therefore be determined by fixing the allocation coefficient to be applied to the quantity requested under the quota concerned.

(4)

Those notifications also show that, for the quotas with order number 09.4127 — 09.4128 — 09.4129, the applications lodged in the first 10 working days of April 2013 under Article 4(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1273/2011 cover a quantity less than that available.

(5)

The total quantity available for the following subperiod should also be fixed for the quotas with order number 09.4127 — 09.4128 — 09.4129 — 09.4130, in accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 5 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1273/2011.

(6)

In order to ensure sound management of the procedure of issuing import licences, this Regulation should enter into force immediately after its publication,

(1)

Section 3 of Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 1187/2009 determines the procedure for allocating export licences for certain milk products to be exported to the Dominican Republic under a quota opened for that country.

(2)

Applications submitted for the 2013/2014 quota year cover quantities less than those available. As a result, it is appropriate, pursuant to Article 31(2), fourth subparagraph of Regulation (EC) No 1187/2009 to provide for the allocation of the remaining quantities. The issue of export licences for such remaining quantities should be conditional upon the competent authority being notified of the quantities accepted by the operator concerned and upon the interested operators lodging a security,

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1,537273 for applications submitted for the part of the quota referred to in Article 28(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1187/2009,

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2,607683 for applications submitted for the part of the quota referred to in Article 28(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1187/2009.

(1)

On 26 April 2010, the Council adopted Decision 2010/231/CFSP (1).

(2)

On 6 March 2013, the United Nations Security Council (‘UNSC’) adopted Resolution 2093 (2013) thereby amending the arms embargo imposed by paragraph 5 of Resolution 733 (1992) and further elaborated upon by paragraphs 1 and 2 of Resolution 1425 (2002). Resolution 2093 (2013) also updated the designation criteria applied by the UNSC Sanctions Committee established pursuant to Resolution 751 (1992) concerning Somalia.

(3)

Decision 2010/231/CFSP should therefore be amended accordingly,

(1)

Article 1 is amended as follows:

(2)

the following Article is inserted:

(3)

Article 2 is replaced by the following:

(4)

the word ‘Annex’ is replaced by ‘Annex I’ throughout the text;

(5)

Annex II is added in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.