CELEX: 22004D0182
Language: en
Date: 2004-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 182/2004 of 16 December 2004 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms

26.5.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 133/46
            
         
      DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
   
   No 182/2004
   of 16 December 2004
   amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms
   THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,
   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 115/2004 of 6 August 2004 (1).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement to include Decision No 791/2004/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 21 April 2004 establishing a Community action programme to promote bodies active at European level and support specific activities in the field of education and training (2).
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Protocol 31 to the Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place with effect from 1 January 2005,
            
         HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
   Article 1
   Article 4 of Protocol 31 to the Agreement shall be amended as follows:
   
               1.
            
            
               in the introductory phrase of paragraph 2h the word ‘programme’ shall be replaced by ‘programmes’;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               the following indent shall be added in paragraph 2h:
               
                           ‘—
                        
                        
                           
                              32004 D 0791: Decision No 791/2004/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 21 April 2004 establishing a Community action programme to promote bodies active at European level and support specific activities in the field of education and training (OJ L 138, 30.4.2004, p. 31).
                        
                     The provisions of the Decision shall, for the purposes of the present Agreement, be read with the following adaptation:
               The EFTA States shall participate in Action 2, 3A, 3B and 3C of the programme.’
            
         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 2005.
   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, 16 December 2004.
      
         
            For the EEA Joint Committee
         
         
            The President
         
         Kjartan JÓHANNSSON
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 64, 10.3.2005, p. 1.
   
      (2)  OJ L 138, 30.4.2004, p. 31.
   
      (3)  No constitutional requirements indicated.