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Document 22014D0151
Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 151/2014 of 27 June 2014 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms
Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 151/2014 of 27 June 2014 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms
Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 151/2014 of 27 June 2014 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms
OJ L 342, 27.11.2014, p. 61–62
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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27.11.2014 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 342/61 |
DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
No 151/2014
of 27 June 2014
amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms
THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,
Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Articles 86 and 98 thereof,
Whereas:
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It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement to include Regulation (EU) No 1296/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on a European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (‘EaSI’) and amending Decision No 283/2010/EU establishing a European Progress Microfinance Facility for employment and social inclusion (1). |
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Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place from 1 January 2014, |
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Article 15 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:
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In paragraph 2, the words ‘and which are carried out before 1 January 2014,’ are added after the words ‘paragraph 1’. |
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The following is added in paragraph 8:
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The text of paragraph 5 is replaced by the following: ‘The EFTA States shall participate in the Community activities referred to in the first indent of paragraph 8 as from 1 January 1999, in the activities referred to in the second indent as from 1 January 2003 and in the activities referred to in the third indent as from 1 January 2014.’ |
Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following the last notification under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement (2).
It shall apply from 1 January 2014.
Article 3
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, 27 June 2014.
For the EEA Joint Committee
The President
Gianluca GRIPPA
(1) OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 238.
(2) No constitutional requirements indicated.