Article 1

Article 5 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:

1. (1)

   paragraph 5 is replaced by the following:

   ‘5.

   The EFTA States shall participate in the Community programmes and actions referred to in the first two indents of paragraph 8 as from 1 January 1996, in the programme referred to in the third indent of paragraph 8 as from 1 January 2000, in the programme referred to in the fourth indent of paragraph 8 as from 1 January 2001, in the programmes referred to in the fifth and sixth indents of paragraph 8 as from 1 January 2002, in the programmes referred to in the seventh and eighth indents of paragraph 8 as from 1 January 2004, in the programmes referred to in the ninth, tenth and eleventh indents of paragraph 8 as from 1 January 2007, in the programme referred to in the twelfth indent of paragraph 8 as from 1 January 2009 and in the programme referred to in the thirteenth indent of paragraph 8 as from 1 January 2012.’;

2. (2)

   the following indent is added in paragraph 8:

   • ‘ 32011 D 0940: Decision No 940/2011/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2011 on the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations (2012) (OJ L 246, 23.9.2011, p. 5).’.