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25.9.2008 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 257/47 |
DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE
No 78/2008
of 6 June 2008
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, as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’, and in particular Articles 86 and 98 thereof,
Whereas:
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Protocol 31 to the Agreement was amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 23/2005 of 8 February 2005 (1). |
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It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement to include Commission Decision 2007/875/EC of 18 December 2007 amending Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Decision 2000/96/EC as regards communicable diseases listed in those decisions (2). |
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Protocol 31 to the Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place, |
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
The following shall be added in the second indent of Article 16(1) (Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Protocol 31 to the Agreement:
‘, as amended by:
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32007 D 0875: Commission Decision 2007/875/EC of 18 December 2007 (OJ L 344, 28.12.2007, p. 48).’ |
Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following the last notification to the EEA Joint Committee under Article 103(1) of the Agreement (3).
Article 3
This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.
Done at Brussels, 6 June 2008.
For the EEA Joint Committee
The President
Alan SEATTER
(1) OJ L 161, 23.6.2005, p. 52.
(2) OJ L 344, 28.12.2007, p. 48.
(3) No constitutional requirements indicated.