Article 1
Article 15 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:
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In paragraph 2, the words ‘and which are carried out before 1 January 2014,’ are added after the words ‘paragraph 1’.
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The following is added in paragraph 8:
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32013 R 1296: Regulation (EU) No 1296/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on a European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (“EaSI”) and amending Decision No 283/2010/EU establishing a European Progress Microfinance Facility for employment and social inclusion (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 238).
Liechtenstein shall be exempted from the participation in, and the financial contribution to, this programme. Norway shall participate in, and financially contribute to, only the EURES axis of the programme.’
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The text of paragraph 5 is replaced by the following:
‘The EFTA States shall participate in the Community activities referred to in the first indent of paragraph 8 as from 1 January 1999, in the activities referred to in the second indent as from 1 January 2003 and in the activities referred to in the third indent as from 1 January 2014.’