CELEX: 22007D0096
Language: en
Date: 2007-07-27 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 96/2007 of 27 July 2007 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms

21.2.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 47/1
            
         
      DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   
   No 96/2007
   of 27 July 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 89/2005 of 10 June 2005 (1).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement to include Council Decision 2007/162/EC, Euratom of 5 March 2007 establishing a Civil Protection Financial Instrument (2).
            
         
               (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 subparagraph shall be added in Article 10(8) of Protocol 31 to the Agreement:
   
               ‘(c)
            
            
               Community acts which shall take effect from 1 January 2007:
               
                           —
                        
                        
                           
                              32007 D 0162: Council Decision 2007/162/EC, Euratom of 5 March 2007 establishing a Civil Protection Financial Instrument (OJ L 71, 10.3.2007, p. 9).’
                        
                     
         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 (3).
   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, 27 July 2007.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The President
         
         Stefán Haukur JÓHANNESSON
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 268, 13.10.2005, p. 25.
   
      (2)  OJ L 71, 10.3.2007, p. 9.
   
      (3)  No constitutional requirements indicated.