Decision of the EEA Joint Committee

No 100/1999

of 30 July 1999

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 adjusted 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 No 90/1999 of the EEA Joint Committee of 25 June 1999(1).

(2) It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement to include the experimental measures in relation to the cultural framework programme in the budget year 1999.

(3) Protocol 31 to the Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place in 1999,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The following paragraph shall be added in Article 13 of Protocol 31 to the Agreement: "5. The EFTA States shall, as from 1 January 1999, participate in the Community actions related to the following budget line, entered in the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 1999:

- B3-2005: 'Experimental measures in relation to the cultural framework programme'."

Article 2

The words "paragraphs 1 and 4" in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 13 of Protocol 31 to the Agreement shall be replaced by "paragraphs 1, 4 and 5".

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on 31 July 1999, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the Agreement have been made to the EEA Joint Committee.

It shall apply from 1 January 1999.

Article 4

This Decision shall be published in the EEA section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Done at Brussels, 30 July 1999.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

N. v. Liechtenstein

(1) See page 53 of this Official Journal.