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, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms

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 continue the cooperation in Union actions funded from the general budget of the European Union regarding the free movement of workers, coordination of social security systems and measures for migrants, including migrants from third countries, entered into the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2017.

EUR-Lex: COM(2017)316: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2017:316:FIN

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