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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-1967/attachment-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2017/1967",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2017/1967 of 23 October 2017 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms (The Union's preparatory action on defence research)",
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  "path": "attachment/1",
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  "number": null,
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  "text": "DRAFT\nDECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No …/2017\nof …\namending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms\nTHE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,\nHaving regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), and in particular Articles 86 and 98 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nIt is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement to include the participation of the EFTA States in the Union's preparatory action on defence research which is funded from the general budget of the European Union.\n(2)\nIt is appropriate that the participation of the EFTA States in the activities financed from budget line 02 04 77 03 commence from 11 April 2017 even if this Decision is adopted, or if the fulfilment of constitutional requirements for this Decision, if any, is notified, after 10 July 2017.\n(3)\nInstitutions, undertakings, organizations and nationals of the EFTA States should be entitled to participate in activities which start before the entry into force of this Decision. The costs incurred for their participation in such activities, the implementation of which starts after 11 April 2017, should be considered eligible under the same conditions as those applicable to costs incurred by institutions, undertakings, organizations and nationals of the EU Member States, provided that this Decision has entered into force before the end of the preparatory action concerned.\n(4)\nProtocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place from 11 April 2017,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:\nDone at Brussels,\nFor the EEA Joint Committee\nThe President\nThe Secretaries to the EEA Joint Committee",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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