2012/341/EU: Council Decision of 25 June 2012 on the position to be taken by the European Union in the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Annex XIII (Transport) to the EEA Agreement

• Articles: 6

Article 1

The position to be taken by the European Union within the EEA Joint Committee on the proposed amendment to Annex XIII (Transport) to the EEA Agreement shall be based on the draft Decision of the EEA Joint Committee attached to this Decision.

Article 1

Point 64a (Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex XIII to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:

1.

The current adaptation (b) shall be renumbered as adaptation (c).

2.

The following adaptation shall be inserted after adaptation (a):

‘(b)

The following paragraph shall be added in Article 15:

“6.   Under the same conditions as Community and EEA EFTA air carriers, Swiss air carriers shall be entitled to operate air services from Member States of the European Union to EEA EFTA States and vice versa. This shall be subject to the condition that, on the one hand, the Community and Switzerland grant EEA EFTA air carriers the right to operate air services from Member States of the European Union to Switzerland and vice versa, and, on the other hand, that Switzerland and the EEA EFTA States grant Community air carriers the right to operate air services from Switzerland to EEA EFTA States and vice versa.

Any restrictions on this arrangement arising from existing bilateral or multilateral agreements binding the Community, on the one hand, and the EEA EFTA States, on the other hand, are hereby superseded.”.’.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on …, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee  ( *1 ) , or on the date of entry into force of the agreement between the European Union and Switzerland granting EEA EFTA air carriers the right to operate air services from Member States of the European Union to Switzerland and vice versa, on the one hand, or of the agreement between the EEA EFTA States and Switzerland granting Community air carriers the right to operate air services from Switzerland to EEA EFTA States and vice versa, on the other hand, whichever is the latest.

Article 3

The President of the EEA Joint Committee shall notify Switzerland of the adoption of this Decision and of the last notification to the EEA Joint Committee under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement, if any.

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 .