# L_2011262EN.01006301.xml

| 6.10.2011 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 262/63 |
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6.10.2011

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 262/63

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE

No 91/2011

of 19 July 2011

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 96/2010 of 2 July 2010 (1). |
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(1)

Protocol 31 to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 96/2010 of 2 July 2010 (1).

| (2) | It is appropriate to continue the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement in Union actions funded from the general budget of the Union regarding the implementation, operation and development of the internal market. |
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(2)

It is appropriate to continue the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement in Union actions funded from the general budget of the Union regarding the implementation, operation and development of the internal market.

| (3) | Protocol 31 to the Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to continue beyond 31 December 2010, |
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(3)

Protocol 31 to the Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to continue beyond 31 December 2010,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Article 7 of Protocol 31 to the Agreement is hereby amended as follows:

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

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

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

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

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

the words ‘years 2008, 2009 and 2010’ in paragraph 8 shall be replaced by the words ‘years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011’.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2011.

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, 19 July 2011.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Kurt JÄGER

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(1)  
  OJ L 277, 21.10.2010, p. 53.

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(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.

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