CELEX: 22016D2209
Language: en
Date: 2015-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 174/2015 of 11 June 2015 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2016/2209]

15.12.2016   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 341/75
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 174/2015
      of 11 June 2015
      amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2016/2209]
      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)
               
               
                  Regulation (EU) No 1296/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on a European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (‘EaSI’) and amending Decision No 283/2010/EU establishing a European Progress Microfinance Facility for employment and social inclusion (1) was incorporated into the EEA Agreement by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 151/2014 of 27 June 2014 (2).
               
            
                  (2)
               
               
                  The limited participation of Norway in the Programme should be extended to the Progress axis.
               
            
                  (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 2015,
               
            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
      Article 1
      In paragraph 8 of Article 15 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, the words ‘EURES axis’ are replaced by the words ‘Progress and EURES axes’:
      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 2015.
      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, 11 June 2015.
         
            
               For the EEA Joint Committee
            
            
               The President
            
            Gianluca GRIPPA
         
      
      
         (1)  OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 238.
      
         (2)  See p. 44 of this Official Journal.
      
         (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.