Article 1

Article 7 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:

1. 1..

   The following paragraph is inserted after paragraph 8:

   ‘9.

   The EFTA States shall, as from 1 January 2014, participate in the Union actions related to the following budget lines, entered into the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2014:

   • Budget line 02.03.01: “Operation and development of the internal market, particularly in the fields of notification, certification and sectoral approximation”,

   • Budget line 12.02.01: “Implementation and development of the internal market”.

   The costs incurred for activities the implementation of which starts after 1 January 2014, may be considered eligible as from the beginning of the action under the grant agreement or the grant decision concerned provided that Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No …/2014 of … enters into force before the end of the action.’

2. 2..

   The words ‘paragraphs 5, 6, 7 and 8’ in paragraphs 3 and 4 are replaced by the words ‘paragraphs 5 to 9’.