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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No .../2014

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) It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement to include Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism(1).

(2) Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place from 1 January 2014,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1 U.K.

The following subparagraph is added in Article 10(8) of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement:

‘(d)

Community acts which shall take effect from 1 January 2014:

• 32013 D 1313: Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 924).

  Liechtenstein shall be exempted from the participation in, and the financial contribution to, this programme.’

Article 2 U.K.

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following the last notification under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement(2).

It shall apply from 1 January 2014.

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 Brussels,

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

The Secretaries

to the EEA Joint Committee

(1)

OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 924.

(2)

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