Considerations on COM(2015)656 - EU position concerning an amendment to Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement (health care expenditure statistics)

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dossier COM(2015)656 - EU position concerning an amendment to Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement (health care expenditure statistics).
document COM(2015)656 EN
date February 12, 2016
 
table>(1)The Agreement on the European Economic Area (2) (‘the EEA Agreement’) entered into force on 1 January 1994.
(2)Pursuant to Article 98 of the EEA Agreement, the EEA Joint Committee may decide to amend, inter alia, Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement.

(3)Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/359 (3) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. Information regarding day care and enterprise financing schemes as well as outpatient and day care is not available in Liechtenstein. It should therefore be exempted from providing this data.

(4)Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5)The position of the Union within the EEA Joint Committee should therefore be based on the attached draft decision,