# L_2007304EN.01005201.xml

| 22.11.2007 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 304/52 |
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22.11.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 304/52

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 68/2007

of 15 June 2007

amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms

THE EEA JOINT COMMMITTEE,

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). |
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(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 1718/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006 concerning the implementation of a programme of support for the European audio-visual sector (MEDIA 2007) (2), as corrected by OJ L 31, 6.2.2007, p. 10. |
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(2)

It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement to include Decision No 1718/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006 concerning the implementation of a programme of support for the European audio-visual sector (MEDIA 2007) (2), as corrected by OJ L 31, 6.2.2007, p. 10.

| (3) | Protocol 31 to the Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place from 1 January 2007, |
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(3)

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

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The following indent shall be added in Article 9(4) of Protocol 31 to the Agreement:

| ‘— | 32006 D 1718: Decision No 1718/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006 concerning the implementation of a programme of support for the European audio-visual sector (MEDIA 2007) (OJ L 327, 24.11.2006, p. 12), as corrected by OJ L 31, 6.2.2007, p. 10.’ |
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32006 D 1718: Decision No 1718/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006 concerning the implementation of a programme of support for the European audio-visual sector (MEDIA 2007) (OJ L 327, 24.11.2006, p. 12), as corrected by OJ L 31, 6.2.2007, p. 10.’

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 (*1).

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

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(1)  
  OJ L 306, 24.11.2005, p. 45.

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(2)  
  OJ L 327, 24.11.2006, p. 12.

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(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.

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