2014/787/EU: Council Decision of 7 November 2014 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms (Satellite Navigation)
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The position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee on the proposed amendment to Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms, shall be based on the draft decision of the EEA Joint Committee attached to this Decision.
The following is inserted after paragraph 8a of Article 1 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement: ‘8aa. (a) The EFTA States shall, as from 1 January 2014, participate in the activities which may result from the following Union act: — 32013 R 1285: Regulation (EU) No 1285/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the implementation and exploitation of European satellite navigation systems and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 876/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 683/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 1 ). (b) The EFTA States shall contribute financially to the activities referred to under (a) in accordance with Article 82(1)(a) of and Protocol 32 to the Agreement. (c) The cost of the extension of the geographical coverage of the EGNOS system to the territories of the participating EFTA States shall be borne by the EFTA States as part of the financial contribution to the activities referred to under (a). Such coverage extension shall be subject to technical feasibility and shall not delay the extension of the geographical coverage of the EGNOS system throughout the EU Member States' territories geographically located in Europe. (d) At the project level, the institutions, undertakings, organizations and nationals of EFTA States shall have the rights referred to in Article 81(d) of the Agreement. (e) The costs incurred for activities the implementation of which starts after 1 January 2014, may be considered eligible as from the beginning of the action under the grant agreement or the grant decision concerned provided that Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No…/2014 of … enters into force before the end of the action. (f) The EFTA States shall participate fully, without the right to vote, in all the Union committees which assist the European Commission in the management, development and implementation of the activities referred to under (a). The participation of the EFTA States in the Union committees and groups of experts which assist the European Commission specifically in security aspects of the activities referred to under (a) shall be addressed in the rules of procedure of these committees and groups. (g) This paragraph shall not apply to Liechtenstein. (h) With regard to Iceland, this paragraph shall be suspended until otherwise decided by the EEA Joint Committee.’
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following the last notification under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement ( *1 ) . It shall apply from 1 January 2014.
This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union .
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