# Council Decision of 25 June 2013 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Protocol 30 to the EEA Agreement, on specific provisions on the organization of cooperation in the field of statistics (2013/333/EU), Article 1


The following is inserted after Article 4 (Modernisation of European Enterprises and Trade Statistics (MEETS)) of Protocol 30 to the EEA Agreement:
“Statistical Programme 2013
Article 5 1. The following act is the object of this Article:
32013 R 0099: Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 on the European statistical programme 2013-17 (OJ L 39, 9.2.2013, p. 12).
2. The European statistical programme 2013-17 as established by Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 shall constitute the framework for the EEA statistical actions to be carried out between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2013. All main fields of the European statistical programme 2013-17 shall be considered to be relevant for the EEA statistical cooperation and shall be open for full participation by the EFTA States.
3. A specific EEA Statistical Programme for 2013 shall be developed jointly by the EFTA Statistical Office and Eurostat. The EEA Statistical Programme for 2013 shall be based on a subset of, and be drawn up in parallel with the annual work programme elaborated by the Commission in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 99/2013. The EEA Statistical Programme for 2013 shall be approved by the Contracting Parties according to their own internal procedures.
4. For 2013, the EFTA States shall contribute financially in accordance with Article 82(1)(a) of the Agreement and the Financial Regulations thereto to an amount representing 75 per cent of the amount shown in budget lines 29 02 05 (European statistical programme 2013-17) and 29 01 04 05 (Statistical information policy – Expenditure on administrative management) entered in the budget of the European Union for 2013.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2013/333/attachment/1/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-333/attachment-1/article-1
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