CELEX: 22019D2069
Language: en
Date: 2018-02-09 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 33/2018 of 9 February 2018 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2019/2069]

12.12.2019   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 323/65
               
            
         DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
         No 33/2018
         of 9 February 2018
         amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2019/2069]
         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 157/2014 of 9 July 2014 (1), the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement includes participation in the telecommunications sector of the Connecting Europe Facility established by Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2).
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement to include Regulation (EU) 2017/1953 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2017 amending Regulations (EU) No 1316/2013 and (EU) No 283/2014 as regards the promotion of internet connectivity in local communities (3).
                  
               
                     (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 is added in the thirteenth (Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council) and fourteenth (Regulation (EU) No 283/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council) indents in Article 2(5) of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement:
            ‘, as amended by:
            
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                           32017 R 1953: Regulation (EU) 2017/1953 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2017 (OJ L 286, 1.11.2017, 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, 9 February 2018.
            
               
                  For the EEA Joint Committee
               
               
                  The President
               
               Claude MAERTEN
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 15, 22.1.2015, p. 85.
         
            (2)  OJ L 348, 20.12.2013, p. 129.
         
            (3)  OJ L 286, 1.11.2017, p. 1.
         
            (*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.