# L_2022291EN.01007301.xml

| 10.11.2022 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 291/73 |
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10.11.2022

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 291/73

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 181/2019

of 14 June 2019

amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2022/2173]

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 extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to include Decision (EU) 2018/646 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 April 2018 on a common framework for the provision of better services for skills and qualifications (Europass) and repealing Decision No 2241/2004/EC (1). |
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(1)

It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to include Decision (EU) 2018/646 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 April 2018 on a common framework for the provision of better services for skills and qualifications (Europass) and repealing Decision No 2241/2004/EC (1).

| (2) | Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place from 1 January 2019, |
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(2)

Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place from 1 January 2019,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

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

| 1. | The following paragraph is inserted after paragraph 2o:

  ‘2p.   The EFTA States shall, with effect from 1 January 2019, participate in the following European framework:






  — | 32018 D 0646: Decision (EU) 2018/646 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 April 2018 on a common framework for the provision of better services for skills and qualifications (Europass) and repealing Decision No 2241/2004/EC (OJ L 112, 2.5.2018, p. 42).’ |
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1.

The following paragraph is inserted after paragraph 2o:

‘2p.   The EFTA States shall, with effect from 1 January 2019, participate in the following European framework:

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32018 D 0646: Decision (EU) 2018/646 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 April 2018 on a common framework for the provision of better services for skills and qualifications (Europass) and repealing Decision No 2241/2004/EC (OJ L 112, 2.5.2018, p. 42).’

| 2. | The text of paragraph 3 is 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, 2m, 2n, 2o and 2p.’ |
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2.

The text of paragraph 3 is 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, 2m, 2n, 2o and 2p.’

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 (*).

It shall apply from 1 January 2019.

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, 14 June 2019.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Claude MAERTEN

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(1)  
  OJ L 112, 2.5.2018, p. 42.

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(*)  No constitutional requirements indicated.

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