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  "legislation": "eudn/2012/227",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 24 April 2012 on the position to be taken by the European Union in the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement (2012/227/EU)",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision\nof 24 April 2012\non the position to be taken by the European Union in the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement\n(2012/227/EU)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 114 and Article 218(9) thereof,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2894/94 of 28 November 1994 concerning arrangements for implementing the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and in particular Article 1(3) thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the European Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nAnnex II to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), contains specific provisions and arrangements concerning technical regulations, standards, testing and certification.\n(2)\nRegulation (EC) No 110/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 on the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of spirit drinks should be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.\n(3)\nCommission Recommendation 2010/133/EU of 2 March 2010 on the prevention and reduction of ethyl carbamate contamination in stone fruit spirits and stone fruit marc spirits and on the monitoring of ethyl carbamate levels in these beverages should be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.\n(4)\nRegulation (EC) No 110/2008 repealed Council Regulation (EEC) No 1576/89 of 29 May 1989 laying down general rules on the definition, description and presentation of spirit drinks which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and should therefore be repealed under the EEA Agreement.\n(5)\nCommission Regulation (EEC) No 1014/90 of 24 April 1990 laying down detailed implementing rules on the definition, description and presentation of spirit drinks, which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement, has become obsolete and should therefore be deleted from the EEA Agreement.\n(6)\nIn order to reduce the problems alcohol consumption may cause, EFTA States may prohibit, on a non-discriminatory basis, the placing on their national market of spirit drinks for direct human consumption which exceed an alcoholic strength of 60 %.\n(7)\nDue to the special features of the system of registration of geographical indications for spirit drinks and the fact that a very low number of registrations are expected from the EFTA States, paragraph 4(d) of Protocol 1 to the EEA Agreement is not to be applied for these matters. As a consequence, the procedures for application and registration of geographical indications will be carried out by the Commission also in relation to applications from the EFTA states which are parties to the EEA Agreement.\n(8)\nThe position of the Union in the EEA Joint Committee should therefore be based on the attached draft Decision,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
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      "text": "OJ L 39, 13.2.2008, p. 16."
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      "text": "OJ L 52, 3.3.2010, p. 53."
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      "text": "OJ L 160, 12.6.1989, p. 1."
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      "text": "OJ L 105, 25.4.1990, p. 9."
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      "text": "OJ C 30, 6.2.2009, p. 18."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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