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Document 22009D0091

    Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 91/2009 of 3 July 2009 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms

    OJ L 277, 22.10.2009, p. 45–46 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

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    Legal status of the document In force

    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2009/91(2)/oj

    Date of document:
    03/07/2009
    Date of effect:
    Entry into force See Art 2
    Date of effect:
    01/01/2009; Application See Art 2
    Date of signature:
    03/07/2009; Brussels
    Date of end of validity:
    No end date
    Author:
    EEA Joint Committee
    Form:
    Decision adopted by bodies created by international agreements
    Treaty:
    Agreement on the European Economic Area
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    Modifies 21994A0103(32) Addition article 4 paragraph 2m 01/01/2009
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    22.10.2009   

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    Official Journal of the European Union

    L 277/45

    DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

    No 91/2009

    of 3 July 2009

    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, as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’, and in particular Articles 86 and 98 thereof,

    Whereas:

    (1)

    Protocol 31 to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 40/2009 of 17 March 2009 (1).

    (2)

    It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement to include Decision No 1298/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 establishing the Erasmus Mundus 2009-2013 action programme for the enhancement of quality in higher education and the promotion of intercultural understanding through cooperation with third countries (2).

    (3)

    Protocol 31 to the Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place from 1 January 2009,

    HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

    Article 1

    Article 4 of Protocol 31 to the Agreement shall be amended as follows:

    1.

    the following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph 2l:

    ‘2m.   The EFTA States shall, with effect from 1 January 2009, participate in actions 1 and 3 of the following programme:

    —

    32008 D 1298: Decision No 1298/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 establishing the Erasmus Mundus 2009-2013 action programme for the enhancement of quality in higher education and the promotion of intercultural understanding through cooperation with third countries (OJ L 340, 19.12.2008, p. 83).’;

    2.

    the text of paragraph 3 shall be replaced by the following:

    ‘The EFTA States shall contribute financially in accordance with Article 82(1)(a) of the Agreement to the programmes and actions referred to in paragraphs 1, 2, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e, 2f, 2g, 2h, 2i, 2j, 2k, 2l and 2m.’

    Article 2

    This Decision shall enter into force on the day following the last notification to the EEA Joint Committee under Article 103(1) of the Agreement (*1).

    It shall apply from 1 January 2009.

    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, 3 July 2009.

    For the EEA Joint Committee

    The President

    Oda Helen SLETNES

    (1)   OJ L 130, 28.5.2009, p. 36.

    (2)   OJ L 340, 19.12.2008, p. 83.

    (*1)  Constitutional requirements indicated.

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