Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, in the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Protocol 30 to the EEA Agreement, on specific provisions on the organization of cooperation in the field of statistics

In order to ensure the requisite legal security and homogeneity of the Internal Market, the EEA Joint Committee is to integrate all the relevant Union legislation into the EEA Agreement as soon as possible after its adoption.

The draft Decision of the EEA Joint Committee (annexed to the proposed Council Decision) aims to amend Protocol 30 to the EEA Agreement in order to incorporate Regulation (EU) No 1383/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 amending Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 on the European statistical programme 2013-17 into Protocol 30 of the EEA Agreement.

Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council was included into Protocol 30 of the EEA Agreement by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 134/2013 of 8 July 2013. As Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 set the financial envelope for the European statistical programme for 2013 only, the inclusion was limited to the year 2013.

Regulation (EU) No 1383/2013 of 17 December 2013 sets the financial envelope for the period 2014 to 2017. The act is included in Article 5 of Protocol 30 and changes are made reflecting the extended period 2014 to 2017. In addition, the draft JCD amends Article 5(3) in order to clarify that the EEA Statistical Programme is an annual programme.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2014)220: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:220:FIN

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