CELEX: 22018D0453
Language: en
Date: 2016-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 197/2016 of 23 September 2016 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2018/453]

22.3.2018   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 80/42
               
            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
      No 197/2016
      of 23 September 2016
      amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2018/453]
      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)
               
               
                  It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement to include Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/758 of 4 February 2016 amending Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards adapting Annex III thereto (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 indent (Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of paragraph 6 of Article 12 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement:
      ‘, as amended by:
      
                  —
               
               
                  
                     32016 R 0758: Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/758 of 4 February 2016 (OJ L 126, 14.5.2016, p. 3).’
               
            Article 2
      This Decision shall enter into force on the day following the last notification under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement (*1).
      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, 23 September 2016.
         
            
               For the EEA Joint Committee
            
            
               The President
            
            Bergdís ELLERTSDÓTTIR
         
      
      
         (1)  OJ L 126, 14.5.2016, p. 3.
      
         (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.