CELEX: 22015D2168
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 301/2014 of 12 December 2014 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2015/2168]

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               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 311/56
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   No 301/2014
   of 12 December 2014
   amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2015/2168]
   THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,
   Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Articles 86 and Article 98 thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement to include Commission Recommendation 2012/73/EUof 6 February 2012 on data protection guidelines for the Early Warning and Response System (EWRS) (1).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   The following is added in the second indent (Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and the Council) in paragraph 1 of Article 16 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement:
   ‘In the context of the cooperation provided for under this indent, the EFTA States shall take note of the following act:
   
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                  32012 H 0073: Commission Recommendation 2012/73/EUof 6 February 2012 on data protection guidelines for the Early Warning and Response System (EWRS) (OJ L 36, 9.2.2012, p. 31).’
            
         Article 2
   The text of Recommendation 2012/73/EU in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.
   Article 3
   This Decision shall enter into force on 13 December 2014, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (2).
   Article 4
   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, 12 December 2014.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The President
         
         Kurt JÄGER
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 36, 9.2.2012, p. 31.
   
      (2)  No constitutional requirements indicated.