# L_2019323EN.01006501.xml

| 12.12.2019 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 323/65 |
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12.12.2019

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 323/65

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 33/2018

of 9 February 2018

amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2019/2069]

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) | Pursuant to Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 157/2014 of 9 July 2014 (1), the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement includes participation in the telecommunications sector of the Connecting Europe Facility established by Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2). |
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(1)

Pursuant to Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 157/2014 of 9 July 2014 (1), the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement includes participation in the telecommunications sector of the Connecting Europe Facility established by Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2).

| (2) | It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement to include Regulation (EU) 2017/1953 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2017 amending Regulations (EU) No 1316/2013 and (EU) No 283/2014 as regards the promotion of internet connectivity in local communities (3). |
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(2)

It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement to include Regulation (EU) 2017/1953 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2017 amending Regulations (EU) No 1316/2013 and (EU) No 283/2014 as regards the promotion of internet connectivity in local communities (3).

| (3) | Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place from 1 January 2018, |
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(3)

Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place from 1 January 2018,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The following is added in the thirteenth (Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council) and fourteenth (Regulation (EU) No 283/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council) indents in Article 2(5) of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement:

‘, as amended by:

| — | 32017 R 1953: Regulation (EU) 2017/1953 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2017 (OJ L 286, 1.11.2017, p. 1).’ |
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32017 R 1953: Regulation (EU) 2017/1953 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2017 (OJ L 286, 1.11.2017, p. 1).’

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2018.

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, 9 February 2018.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Claude MAERTEN

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(1)  
  OJ L 15, 22.1.2015, p. 85.

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(2)  
  OJ L 348, 20.12.2013, p. 129.

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(3)  
  OJ L 286, 1.11.2017, p. 1.

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(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.

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