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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-4/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2018/4",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2018/4 of 18 December 2017 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning amending the rules of procedure of the EEA Joint Committee",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-4",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision (EU) 2018/4\nof 18 December 2017\non the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning amending the rules of procedure of the EEA Joint Committee\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 217 thereof,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2894/94 of 28 November 1994 concerning arrangements for implementing the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and in particular the first indent of point (b) of Article 1(3) thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the European Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’) entered into force on 1 January 1994.\n(2)\nThe Agreement on the participation of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania in the European Economic Area, signed on 25 July 2007, amended Article 129(1) of the EEA Agreement to add Bulgarian and Romanian to the list of languages of the EEA Agreement.\n(3)\nThe Agreement on the participation of the Republic of Croatia in the European Economic Area (‘the 2014 EEA Enlargement Agreement’), signed on 11 April 2014, amended Article 129(1) of the EEA Agreement to add Croatian to the list of languages of the EEA Agreement.\n(4)\nThe rules of procedure of the EEA Joint Committee, which were adopted by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 1/94 of 8 February 1994 and amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 24/2005 of 8 February 2005, should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(5)\nThe 2014 EEA Enlargement Agreement has been provisionally applicable to its signatories since 12 April 2014, and the corresponding Decision of the EEA Joint Committee should therefore apply provisionally pending the entry into force of the 2014 EEA Enlargement Agreement.\n(6)\nThe position of the Union within the EEA Joint Committee should therefore be based on the attached draft decisions,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 305, 30.11.1994, p. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 1, 3.1.1994, p. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 221, 25.8.2007, p. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ L 170, 11.6.2014, p. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "OJ L 85, 30.3.1994, p. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "OJ L 161, 23.6.2005, p. 54."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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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