Annexes to SEC(2010)1632 - EU position concerning an amendment to Annex XX (Environment) and Protocol 37 to the EEA Agreement - Main contents
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dossier | SEC(2010)1632 - EU position concerning an amendment to Annex XX (Environment) and Protocol 37 to the EEA Agreement. |
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document | SEC(2010)1632 |
date | February 28, 2011 |
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DECISION No …/2011 OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
of
amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement
THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,
Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area (hereinafter ‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Article 98 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) | Annex XX to the EEA Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 146/2007 of 26 October 2007 (1) in order to incorporate, inter alia, Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community (2), into that Agreement. |
(2) | Directive 2008/101/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 amending Directive 2003/87/EC so as to include aviation activities in the scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community (3) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. |
(3) | The decision-making process leading to the implementation of the Directive will take place in close cooperation between the European Commission, the EFTA Surveillance Authority and the EFTA States. |
(4) | The Contracting Parties have issued a Joint Declaration, emphasising, inter alia, that they will make every effort in order to ensure the swift adoption and entry into force of any EEA Joint Committee decisions necessary to extend to the EFTA States the relevant implementing decisions to be adopted by the European Commission and particularly those pursuant to Articles 3e(3) and 3f (5) of Directive 2003/87/EC as amended by Directive 2008/101/EC, |
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Point 21al of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement is hereby amended as follows:
(1) | the following indent is added:
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(2) | the following adaptations are inserted after adaptation (b):
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(3) | the following adaptations are inserted after adaptation (i):
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Article 2
The text of Directive 2008/101/EC 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 the day following the last notification to the EEA Joint Committee under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement (4).
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 …,
For the EEA Joint Committee
The President
The Secretaries
to the EEA Joint Committee
Joint Declaration by the Contracting Parties to Decision No …/2011 incorporating Directive 2008/101/EC into the EEA Agreement
‘Directive 2008/101/EC states that revenues generated from the auctioning of allowances for aviation should be used to tackle climate change. The application of this provision by the EFTA States is without prejudice to the scope of the EEA Agreement.
As regards the decisions on benchmarks pursuant to Articles 3e(3) and 3f(5) of Directive 2003/87/EC as amended by Directive 2008/101/EC, the Contracting Parties will make every effort in order to ensure swift adoption and entry into force of any EEA Joint Committee decisions incorporating each decision of the European Commission. In order to guarantee the homogeneity of the EEA and of its common ETS, a joint and parallel process of the Contracting Parties shall lead up to the decisions of the European Commission, which shall be incorporated into the EEA Agreement, if necessary by use of written procedure.
With the aim to provide for a transparent ETS in the EEA for all aviation operators concerned, the European Commission will include special clauses in its decisions implementing Directive 2008/101/EC, which will make reference to the extension of the decisions to the EEA EFTA States by decisions of the EEA Joint Committee.’.
(1) OJ L 100, 10.4.2008, p. 92.
(2) OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32.
(3) OJ L 8, 13.1.2009, p. 3.
(4) [No constitutional requirements indicated.] [Constitutional requirements indicated.]