EC/Norway agreement: participation in the work of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction EMCDDA

PURPOSE: to enable Norway to participate in the work of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). CONTENT: the draft agreement seeks to enable Norway to participate in the work of the EMCDDA. It contains provisions regarding its participation in REITOX (European Information Network on Drugs and Drug Addiction) and the establishment of a national focal point responsible for providing information on drugs and drug addiction in Norway and for communicating with other national focal points in the network. Norway's contribution to the Observatory's budget will be equivalent of 5.5% of the Union's subsidy, excluding the subsidy to the national focal points of the Reitox network. The estimated cost of additional work in the Centre when set against the contribution of Norway to the budget will result in no extra charge on the budget of the Union.�