Council Decision (EU) 2015/1773

of 1 October 2015

on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement (Energy Statistics) (revoked)

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No .../2015

of …

amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement

THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Regulation (EU) No 431/2014 of 24 April 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy statistics, as regards the implementation of annual statistics on energy consumption in households(1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

(2) Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The text of point 26a (Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex XXI is replaced by the following:

‘32008 R 1099: Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics (OJ L 304, 14.11.2008, p. 1), as amended by:

32013 R 0147: Commission Regulation (EU) No 147/2013 of 13 February 2013 (OJ L 50, 22.2.2013, p. 1),
32014 R 0431: Commission Regulation (EU) No 431/2014 of 24 April 2014 (OJ L 131, 1.5.2014, p. 1).

The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptations:

(a)

Liechtenstein is exempted from collecting the data required by this Regulation, except for data of imports and exports of the various energy products and the production of electricity for the Annual Energy Statistics (Annex B).

(b)

Iceland is exempted from reporting the aggregates defined in Annex B relating to the detailed energy consumption breakdown by type of end-use (space heating, space cooling, water heating, cooking, lighting and electrical appliances, other end uses) of the Residential sector as it is defined in Section 2.3 of Annex A.’

Article 2

The texts of Regulation (EU) No 431/2014 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 …, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made(2).

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 Brussels,

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

The Secretaries

to the EEA Joint Committee

(1)

OJ L 131, 1.5.2014, p. 1.

(2)

[No constitutional requirements indicated.] [Constitutional requirements indicated.]

(1)