DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 271/2022

of 23 September 2022

amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2023/800]

THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (“the EEA Agreement”), and in particular Articles 86 and 98 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) It is appropriate to extend the cooperation of the Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement to include Decision (EU) 2021/2316 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 December 2021 on a European Year of Youth (2022) ( 1 ) .

(2) Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended in order to allow for this extended cooperation to take place from 1 January 2022,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The following paragraph is inserted after paragraph 2r (Regulation (EU) 2021/888 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Article 4 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement:

‘2s.

The EFTA States shall, with effect from 1 January 2022, participate in the following action:

— 32021 D 2316 : Decision (EU) 2021/2316 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 December 2021 on a European Year of Youth (2022) ( OJ L 462, 28.12.2021, p. 1 ).’

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following the last notification under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement ( * ) .

It shall apply from 1 January 2022.

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, 23 September 2022.

For the EEA Joint Committee

The President

Kristján Andri STEFÁNSSON

( 1 ) OJ L 462, 28.12.2021, p. 1 .

( * ) No constitutional requirements indicated.