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Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 140/2012 of 13 July 2012 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms
Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 140/2012 of 13 July 2012 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms
Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 140/2012 of 13 July 2012 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms
OJ L 309, 8.11.2012, p. 23–24
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 309/23 |
DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
No 140/2012
of 13 July 2012
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 122/2012 of 15 June 2012 (1). |
(2) |
It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement to include Regulation (EC) No 401/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network (2). |
(3) |
It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement to the field of sport. |
(4) |
Regulation (EC) No 401/2009 repeals Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 (3) which is incorporated into the Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the Agreement. |
(5) |
Protocol 31 to the Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place, |
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Protocol 31 to the Agreement shall be amended as follows:
(1) |
paragraph 2 of Article 3 of Protocol 31 to the Agreement shall be replaced by the following:
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(2) |
the heading of Article 4 (Education, training and youth) shall be replaced by the following: ‘Education, training, youth and sport’. |
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 (*2).
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, 13 July 2012.
For the EEA Joint Committee
The President
Atle LEIKVOLL
(1) OJ L 270, 4.10.2012, p. 46.
(2) OJ L 126, 21.5.2009, p. 13.
(3) OJ L 120, 11.5.1990, p. 1.
(*2) No constitutional requirements indicated.