22.11.2007   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 304/45

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 64/2007

of 15 June 2007

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 107/2005 of 8 July 2005 (1).

(2)

It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement to include Decision No 1719/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006 establishing the ‘Youth in Action’ programme for the period 2007 to 2013 (2).

(3)

It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement to include Decision No 1720/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006 establishing an action programme in the field of lifelong learning (3).

(4)

Protocol 31 to the Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place with effect from 1 January 2007,

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 2k:

‘2l.   The EFTA States shall, with effect from 1 January 2007, participate in the following programmes:

—

32006 D 1719: Decision No 1719/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006 establishing the “Youth in Action” programme for the period 2007 to 2013 (OJ L 327, 24.11.2006, p. 30),

—

32006 D 1720: Decision No 1720/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006 establishing an action programme in the field of lifelong learning (OJ L 327, 24.11.2006, p. 45).’

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 and 2l.’

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 (4).

It shall apply from 1 January 2007.

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, 15 June 2007.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Alan SEATTER

(1)  OJ L 306, 24.11.2005, p. 45.

(2)  OJ L 327, 24.11.2006, p. 30.

(3)  OJ L 327, 24.11.2006, p. 45.

(4)  No constitutional requirements indicated.