
Article 1 
The position to be taken by the European Union in the EEA Joint Committee on the proposed amendment to Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement shall be based on the draft Decision of the EEA Joint Committee attached to this Decision.
Article 2 
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.
Done at Brussels, 10 July 2012.
For the Council
The President
V. SHIARLY
Article 1 
Article 5 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:

((1)) the following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph 11:
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12. The EFTA States shall, as from 1 January 2012, participate in the actions funded from the following budget lines, entered in the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2012:
— Budget line 04 01 04 08: “Free movement of workers, coordination of social security systems and measures for migrants, including migrants from third countries – Expenditure on administrative management”,
— Budget line 04 03 05: “Free movement of workers, coordination of social security systems and measures for migrants, including migrants from third countries”.';
((2)) the words ‘and in the programme referred to in the twelfth indent as from 1 January 2009’ in paragraph 5 shall be replaced by ‘, in the programme referred to in the twelfth indent as from 1 January 2009 and in the actions funded from the budget lines for the financial year 2012 referred to in paragraph 12 as from 1 January 2012’;
((3)) the words ‘paragraph 8’ in paragraphs 6 and 7 shall be replaced by the words ‘paragraphs 8 and 12’.
Article 2 
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following the last notification to the EEA Joint Committee under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement.
It shall apply from 1 January 2012.
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 …, …
For the EEA Joint Committee
The President
The Secretaries to the EEA Joint Committee