Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 6/2025 of 7 February 2025 amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement [2025/724]
Date: 2025-02-07
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, animal feedingstuffs, domestic animal, flavouring, market approval, pet food, preservative, revision of an agreement, texture agent




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 6/2025
of 7 February 2025
         
amending Annex I (Veterinary and phytosanitary matters) to the EEA Agreement [2025/724]


THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (“the EEA Agreement”), and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2393 of 9 September 2024 concerning the renewal of the authorisation of sodium bisulphate and the authorisation of new uses of that substance as a feed additive for certain animal species (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2394 of 9 September 2024 concerning the renewal of the authorisation of a preparation of Enterococcus lactis NCIMB 10415 as a feed additive for cats and dogs (holder of authorisation: DSM Nutritional Products Ltd.) and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1061/2013 (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(3)


Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2394 repeals Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1061/2013 (3), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.












(4)


This Decision concerns legislation regarding feedingstuffs. Legislation regarding feedingstuffs shall not apply to Liechtenstein as long as the application of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products is extended to Liechtenstein, as specified in the sectoral adaptations to Annex I to the EEA Agreement. This Decision is therefore not to apply to Liechtenstein.












(5)


Annex I to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
Chapter II of Annex I to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:






1.


The following points are inserted after point 614 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2185):






‘615.



32024 R 2393: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2393 of 9 September 2024 concerning the renewal of the authorisation of sodium bisulphate and the authorisation of new uses of that substance as a feed additive for certain animal species (OJ L, 2024/2393, 10.9.2024).










616.



32024 R 2394: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2394 of 9 September 2024 concerning the renewal of the authorisation of a preparation of Enterococcus lactis NCIMB 10415 as a feed additive for cats and dogs (holder of authorisation: DSM Nutritional Products Ltd.) and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1061/2013 (OJ L, 2024/2394, 10.9.2024).’














2.


The text of point 2zzr (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1061/2013) is deleted.






Article 2
The texts of Implementing Regulations (EU) 2024/2393 and (EU) 2024/2394 in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.


Article 3
This Decision shall enter into force on 8 February 2025, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made (*1).


Article 4
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, 7 February 2025.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Nicolas VON LINGEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L, 2024/2393, 10.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/2393/oj.

(2)  
            OJ L, 2024/2394, 10.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/2394/oj.

(3)  
            OJ L 289, 31.10.2013, p. 38.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2025/724/oj
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