Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 17/2025 of 7 February 2025 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2025/731]
Date: 2025-02-07
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: EU programme, European Economic Area, consumer protection, food inspection, food safety, foodstuff, pesticide, pesticide residue, revision of an agreement, sampling




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2025/731


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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 17/2025
of 7 February 2025
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2025/731]


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) 2024/989 of 2 April 2024 concerning a coordinated multiannual control programme of the Union for 2025, 2026 and 2027 to ensure compliance with maximum residue levels of pesticides and to assess the consumer exposure to pesticide residues in and on food of plant and animal origin and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/731 (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/989 repeals, with effect from 1 September 2025, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/731 (2), which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement with effect from 1 September 2025.












(3)


This Decision concerns legislation regarding foodstuffs. Legislation regarding foodstuffs 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 introduction to Chapter XII of Annex II to the EEA Agreement. This Decision is therefore not to apply to Liechtenstein.












(4)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



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






1.


The following point is inserted after point 259 (Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/2105):






‘260.



32024 R 0989: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/989 of 2 April 2024 concerning a coordinated multiannual control programme of the Union for 2025, 2026 and 2027 to ensure compliance with maximum residue levels of pesticides and to assess the consumer exposure to pesticide residues in and on food of plant and animal origin and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/731 (OJ L, 2024/989, 3.4.2024).
The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptations:
The following shall be added to the table in point A (1) of Annex II:










IS


12




NO


12’














2.


The text of point 241 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/731) shall be deleted with effect from 1 September 2025.






Article 2
The text of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/989 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, 2024/989, 3.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/989/oj.

(2)  
            OJ L 95, 4.4.2023, p. 28.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2025/731/oj
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