Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be adopted within the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement

In order to ensure the requisite of legal security and homogeneity of the Internal Market, the EEA Joint Committee is to integrate all the relevant EU legislation into the EEA Agreement as soon as possible after its adoption and also allow for the participation of the EEA EFTA States in EEA relevant EU actions or programmes.

The draft Decision of the EEA Joint Committee (annexed to the proposed Council Decision) aims to amend amend Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms in order to allow the EEA EFTA States (Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein) to participate in the Union actions related to the Budget line 12 02 01: "Implementation and development of the single market for financial services", entered into the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2017.

EUR-Lex: COM(2017)145: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2017:145:FIN

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