
Article 1 
The position to be adopted, on the Union's behalf, 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.
Article 2 
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.
Done at Brussels, 12 May 2016.
For the Council
The President
F. MOGHERINI
Article 1 
Article 7 of Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:

1.. In paragraphs 3 and 4, the words ‘paragraphs 5 to [11]’ are replaced by the words ‘this Article’.
2.. The following paragraph is added:
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12. 

— Budget line 12 02 01: ‘Implementation and development of the single market for financial services’.
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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 2016.
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,
For the EEA Joint Committee
The President
The Secretaries
to the EEA Joint Committee