Council Decision (EU) 2018/777 of 22 May 2018 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning the amendment of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms (budget line 02 04 77 03: ‘Preparatory action on defence research’) (Text with EEA relevance. )

The position to be adopted, on behalf of the Union, within the EEA Joint Committee on the proposed amendment of 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.

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

In paragraph 13(a) of Article 1 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, the words ‘financial year 2017’ are replaced by the words ‘financial years 2017 and 2018’.

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 2018.

This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.