CELEX: 22020D0946
Language: en
Date: 2019-02-08 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 29/2019 of 8 February 2019 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2020/946]

16.7.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 228/44
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 29/2019
         of 8 February 2019
         amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2020/946]
         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 111/2014 of 16 May 2014 (1), the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement includes participation in the Creative Europe Programme established by Regulation (EU) No 1295/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement to include Regulation (EU) 2018/596 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 April 2018 amending Regulation (EU) No 1295/2013 establishing the Creative Europe Programme (2014 to 2020) (2).
                  
               
                     (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 shall be added in the eighth indent of paragraph 4 of Article 9 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement:
            ‘, as amended by:
            
                        —
                     
                     
                        
                           32018 R 0596: Regulation (EU) 2018/596 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 April 2018 (OJ L 103, 23.4.2018, 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, 8 February 2019.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Claude MAERTEN
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 310, 30.10.2014, p. 83.
         
            (2)  OJ L 103, 23.4.2018, p. 1.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.