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13.9.2012 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
248/19
DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
No 83/2012
of 30 April 2012
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA
Agreement
THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,
laying down Community procedures for the establishment
of residue limits of pharmacologically active substances in
foodstuffs of animal origin, repealing Council Regulation
Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic
(EEC) No 2377/90 and amending Directive 2001/82/EC
Area, as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement
of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regu
on the European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as
lation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of
‘the Agreement’, and in particular Article 98 thereof,
the Council (OJ L 152, 16.6.2009, p. 11).
Whereas:
The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of
this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation:
(1) Annex
II
to
the
Agreement
was
amended
by
Decision
of
the EEA Joint Committee No 47/2012 of 30 March
2012 ( 1 ).
(a) references to other acts in the Regulation shall be
considered relevant to the extent and in the form that
(2) Regulation
(EC)
No
470/2009
of
the
European
those acts are incorporated into the Agreement;
Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 laying
down Community procedures for the establishment of
residue limits of pharmacologically active substances in
foodstuffs of animal origin, repealing Council Regulation
(b) an EFTA State may request the Agency to issue an
(EEC) No 2377/90 and amending Directive 2001/82/EC
opinion according to Article 9(1), first paragraph of
of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regu
Article 11, Article 15(1) and Article 27(2). Such a
lation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and
request shall, in the first place, be addressed to the
of the Council ( 2 ) is to be incorporated into the
Commission which shall, where it considers that the
Agreement.
request is of common interest, forward it to the
Agency for further processing.’;
(3) Commission Regulation (EU) No 37/2010 of
22 December 2009 on pharmacologically active
substances and their classification regarding maximum
(2) the following text shall be inserted in point 13 (deleted):
residue limits in foodstuffs of animal origin ( 3 ), as
corrected by OJ L 293, 11.11.2010, p. 72, is to be
incorporated into the Agreement,
‘32010 R 0037: Commission Regulation (EU) No 37/2010
of 22 December 2009 on pharmacologically active
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
substances and their classification regarding maximum
residue limits in foodstuffs of animal origin (OJ L 15,
20.1.2010, p. 1), as corrected by OJ L 293, 11.11.2010,
Article 1
p. 72.’;
Chapter XIII of Annex II to the Agreement shall be amended as
follows:
(3) the following indent shall be added in points 15p (Directive
(1) The following text shall be inserted in point 12 (deleted):
2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council)
and 15zb (Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European
Parliament and of the Council):
‘32009 R 0470: Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009
‘— 32009 R 0470: Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 of the
( 1 ) OJ L 207, 2.8.2012, p. 27.
( 2 ) OJ L 152, 16.6.2009, p. 11.
European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009
( 3 ) OJ L 15, 20.1.2010, p. 1.
(OJ L 152, 16.6.2009, p. 11).’.

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Official Journal of the European Union
13.9.2012
Article 2
Article 4
The texts of Regulations (EC) No 470/2009 and (EU) No
This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in
37/2010, as corrected by OJ L 293, 11.11.2010, p. 72, in
the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European
the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the
Union.
EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union,
shall be authentic.
Done at Brussels, 30 April 2012.
Article 3
For the EEA Joint Committee
This Decision shall enter into force on 1 May 2012, provided
that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the Agreement
The Acting President
have been made to the EEA Joint Committee (*)
Gianluca GRIPPA
(*) No constitutional requirements indicated.

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