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8.11.2012 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
309/25
DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
No 141/2012
of 13 July 2012
amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four
freedoms
THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,
from third countries — Expenditure on adminis
trative management”,
Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic
Area, as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement
— Budget line 04 03 05: “Free movement of workers,
on the European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as
coordination of social security systems and
‘the Agreement’, and in particular Articles 86 and 98 thereof,
measures for migrants, including migrants from
third countries”.’.
Whereas:
(2) the words ‘and in the programme referred to in the twelfth
(1) Protocol
31
to
the
Agreement
was
amended
by
Decision
indent as from 1 January 2009’ in paragraph 5 shall be
of the EEA Joint Committee No 122/2012 of 15 June
replaced by ‘, in the programme referred to in the twelfth
2012 ( 1 ).
indent as from 1 January 2009 and in the actions funded
from the budget lines for the financial year 2012 referred to
(2) It
is
appropriate
to
extend
the
cooperation
of
the
in paragraph 12 as from 1 January 2012’.
Contracting Parties to the Agreement to include
cooperation concerning free movement of workers, coor
dination of social security systems and measures for
(3) the words ‘paragraph 8’ in paragraphs 6 and 7 shall be
migrants, including migrants from third countries.
replaced by the words ‘paragraphs 8 and 12’.
(3) Protocol
31
to
the
Agreement
should
therefore
be
Article 2
amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following the last
to take place from 1 January 2012,
notification to the EEA Joint Committee under Article 103(1) of
the Agreement (*).
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
It shall apply from 1 January 2012.
Article 5 of Protocol 31 to the Agreement shall be amended as
Article 3
follows:
This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in
(1) the following paragraph shall be inserted after
the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European
paragraph 11:
Union.
‘12. The EFTA States shall, as from 1 January 2012,
participate in the actions funded from the following
Done at Brussels, 13 July 2012.
budget lines, entered in the general budget of the
European Union for the financial year 2012:
For the EEA Joint Committee
— Budget line 04 01 04 08: “Free movement of
workers, coordination of social security systems
The President
and measures for migrants, including migrants
Atle LEIKVOLL
( 1 ) OJ L 270, 4.10.2012, p. 46. (*)
No
constitutional
requirements
indicated.

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