DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 133/2013

of 8 July 2013

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:

(1)	It is appropriate to continue the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement in Union actions funded from the General Budget of the Union regarding the implementation, operation and development of the Internal Market.

(2)	Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to continue beyond 31 December 2012,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Article 7 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:

(1)	the words ‘years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012’ in paragraph 6 shall be replaced by the words ‘years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013’;

(2)	the words ‘years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012’ in paragraph 7 shall be replaced by the words ‘years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013’;

(3)	the words ‘years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012’ in paragraph 8 shall be replaced by the words ‘years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013’.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on 9 July 2013, or on the day following the last notification under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement (*1), whichever is the later.

It shall apply from 1 January 2013.

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, 8 July 2013.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Thórir IBSEN

(*1) No constitutional requirements indicated.