EEA agreement: amending annex IV (energy, electricity)

PURPOSE: amendment of Annex IV (Energy) to the EEA in order to integrate all the relevant Community legislation into the EEA Agreement as soon as possible after its adoption. CONTENT: In order to ensure the requisite legal security and homogeneity, the EEA Joint Committee is to integrate all the relevant Community legislation into the EEA Agreement as soon as possible after its adoption. Council Regulation No. 2894/94 concerning arrangements for implementing the EEA Agreement envisages that the Council, following consultation with the European Parliament, should establish the Community position for decisions covering Community legislation involving important modifications. This proposed decion seeks to amend Annex IV of the EEA Agreement with the purpose of incorporating within it European Parliament and Council Directive 96/62/EC concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity (with some small adaptations to the Community text).�