Decision of the EEA Joint Committee

No 132/1999

of 5 November 1999

amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement

THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as adjusted by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as "the Agreement", and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Annex I to the Agreement was amended by Decision No 76/1999 of the EEA Joint Committee of 25 June 1999(1).

(2) Commission Decision 98/720/EC of 9 December 1998 amending for the third time Decision 98/339/EC concerning certain protective measures relating to classical swine fever in Spain(2), is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(3) Commission Decision 1999/39/EC of 21 December 1998 approving the plan presented by Germany for the eradication of classical swine fever in feral pigs in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and Lower Saxony and repealing Decision 96/552/EC(3), is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

(4) This Decision is not to apply to Iceland and Liechtenstein,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The following indent shall be added in point 10 (Commission Decision 98/339/EC) in Part 3.2 of Chapter I of Annex I to the Agreement:

"- 398 D 0720: Commission Decision 98/720/EC of 9 December 1998 (OJ L 342, 17.12.1998, p. 30)."

Article 2

The following point shall be inserted after point 7 (Commission Decision 98/399/EC) under the heading "Acts of which the EFTA States and the EFTA Surveillance Authority shall take due account" in Part 3 of Chapter I of Annex I to the Agreement:

"8. 399 D 0039: Commission Decision 1999/39/EC of 21 December 1998 approving the plan presented by Germany for the eradication of classical swine fever in feral pigs in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and Lower Saxony and repealing Decision 96/552/EC (OJ L 11, 16.1.1999, p. 47)."

Article 3

Point 4 (Commission Decision 96/552/EC) under the heading "Acts of which the EFTA States and the EFTA Surveillance Authority shall take due account" in Part 3 of Chapter I of Annex I to the Agreement shall be abrogated.

Article 4

The texts of Decisions 98/720/EC and 1999/39/EC in the Norwegian language, which are annexed to the Norwegian language version of this Decision, are authentic.

Article 5

This Decision shall enter into force on 6 November 1999, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee.

Article 6

This Decision shall be published in the EEA section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Done at Brussels, 5 November 1999.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

N. v. Liechtenstein

(1) OJ L 296, 23.11.2000, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 342, 17.12.1998, p. 30.

(3) OJ L 11, 16.1.1999, p. 47.