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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No …/2012

of …

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 (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Articles 86 and 98 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EU) No 911/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 on the European Earth monitoring programme (GMES) and its initial operations (2011 to 2013)(1) was incorporated into the EEA Agreement by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 139/2012(2).

(2) The suspension of the applicability of Regulation (EU) No 911/2010 to Iceland should be terminated.

(3) Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this termination to take effect from 1 January 2013,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1 U.K.

In paragraph 8c of Article 1 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, adaptation (e) shall be deleted.

Article 2 U.K.

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following the last notification to the EEA Joint Committee under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement(3).

It shall apply from 1 January 2013.

Article 3 U.K.

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 …,

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

The Secretaries to the EEA Joint Committee

(1)

OJ L 276, 20.10.2010, p. 1.

(2)

OJ L 309, 8.11.2012, p. 21.

(3)

[No constitutional requirements indicated.] [Constitutional requirements indicated.]