Attachment
United Kingdom
DRAFT
DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No .../2014
of
amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms
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)
Norway has participated and contributed financially to the activities resulting from the Regulation (EC) No 683/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Councilf1 through the inclusion of that Regulation in Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement.
(2)
It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement to include Regulation (EU) No 1285/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the implementation and exploitation of European satellite navigation systems and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 876/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 683/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Councilf2.
(3)
It is appropriate that the participation of EFTA States in the activities resulting from Regulation (EU) No 1285/2013 commence from 1 January 2014, irrespective of when this Decision is adopted or whether the fulfilment of constitutional requirements for this Decision, if any, is notified after 10 July 2014.
(4)
Entities established in the EFTA States should be entitled to participate in activities which start before the entry into force of this Decision. The costs incurred for such activities, the implementation of which starts after 1 January 2014, may be considered eligible under the same conditions as those applicable to costs incurred by entities established in the EU Member States provided that this Decision enters into force before the end of the action concerned.
(5)
The Cooperation Agreement on Satellite Navigation between the European Union and its Member States and the Kingdom of Norwayf3, which was signed on 22 September 2010, applies provisionally as of 1 May 2011.
(6)
Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place from 1 January 2014. However, due to economic constraints, the participation of Iceland in the programme should be suspended temporarily,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Done at Brussels,
For the EEA Joint Committee
The President
The Secretaries
to the EEA Joint Committee