DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 172/2023

of 13 June 2023

amending Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement [2023/2569]

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 Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1948 of 10 November 2021 on the treatment of repayments of VAT to non-taxable persons and to taxable persons for their exempt activities for the purposes of Regulation (EU) 2019/516 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of gross national income at market prices (GNI Regulation) and repealing Commission Decision 1999/622/EC, Euratom and Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 116/2005 ( 1 ) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.

(2) Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1948 repeals Commission Decision 1999/622/EC, Euratom ( 2 ) and Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 116/2005 ( 3 ) , which are incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which are consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annex XXI to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:

The text of point 19j (Commission Decision 1999/622/EC) is replaced by the following:

‘ 32021 R 1948 : Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1948 of 10 November 2021 on the treatment of repayments of VAT to non-taxable persons and to taxable persons for their exempt activities for the purposes of Regulation (EU) 2019/516 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of gross national income at market prices (GNI Regulation) and repealing Commission Decision 1999/622/EC, Euratom and Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 116/2005 ( OJ L 398, 11.11.2021, p. 4 ).’

The text of point 19r (Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 116/2005) is deleted.

Article 2

The text of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1948 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 14 June 2023, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made ( *1 ) .

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, 13 June 2023.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Nicolas VON LINGEN

( 1 ) OJ L 398, 11.11.2021, p. 4 .

( 2 ) OJ L 245, 17.9.1999, p. 51 .

( 3 ) OJ L 24, 27.1.2005, p. 6 .

( *1 ) No constitutional requirements indicated.

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2023/2569/oj

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