Annexes to COM(2017)582 - EU position concerning an amendment to Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement (Union's Preparatory Action on Defence Research) - Main contents
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dossier | COM(2017)582 - EU position concerning an amendment to Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement (Union's Preparatory Action on Defence Research). |
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document | COM(2017)582 |
date | October 23, 2017 |
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 the participation of the EFTA States in the Union's preparatory action on defence research which is funded from the general budget of the European Union. |
(2) | It is appropriate that the participation of the EFTA States in the activities financed from budget line 02 04 77 03 commence from 11 April 2017 even if this Decision is adopted, or if the fulfilment of constitutional requirements for this Decision, if any, is notified, after 10 July 2017. |
(3) | Institutions, undertakings, organizations and nationals of the EFTA States should be entitled to participate in activities which start before the entry into force of this Decision. The costs incurred for their participation in such activities, the implementation of which starts after 11 April 2017, should be considered eligible under the same conditions as those applicable to costs incurred by institutions, undertakings, organizations and nationals of the EU Member States, provided that this Decision has entered into force before the end of the preparatory action concerned. |
(4) | Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place from 11 April 2017, |
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
The following paragraph is added in Article 1 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement:
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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 11 April 2017.
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,
For the EEA Joint Committee
The President
The Secretaries to the EEA Joint Committee
(*1) [No constitutional requirements indicated.] [Constitutional requirements indicated.]
ANNEX
Declaration by the EFTA States to Decision No …/2017 amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to include the participation of the EFTA States in the Union's preparatory action on defence research
This Decision extends the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to include the participation of the EFTA States in the Union's preparatory action on defence research. The EFTA States consider that defence matters fall outside the scope of the EEA Agreement, and therefore that the adoption of this Decision does not extend the scope of the EEA Agreement to include defence matters beyond the participation of the EFTA States in that preparatory action. The EFTA States also stress that Iceland and Liechtenstein shall not participate in, and shall not financially contribute to, this preparatory action.