Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 57/2025 of 14 March 2025 amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2025/984]
Date: 2025-03-14
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, animal experimentation, dangerous substance, international convention, market approval, organic chemical, organic pollution, revision of an agreement, technological change, testing




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2025/984


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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 57/2025
of 14 March 2025
         
amending Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) to the EEA Agreement [2025/984]


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 Regulation (EU) 2024/2492 of 23 September 2024 amending Regulation (EC) No 440/2008 as regards the test methods, to adapt them to technical progress (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2555 of 21 March 2024 amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards hexabromocyclododecane (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(3)


Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2570 of 22 July 2024 amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards methoxychlor (3) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(4)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



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






1.


The following indents are added in point 12w (Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council):






‘—



32024 R 2555: Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2555 of 21 March 2024 (OJ L, 2024/2555, 27.9.2024),










—



32024 R 2570: Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2570 of 22 July 2024 (OJ L, 2024/2570, 27.9.2024).’














2.


The following indent is added in point 12zza (Council Regulation (EC) No 440/2008):






‘—



32024 R 2492: Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/2492 of 23 September 2024 (OJ L, 2024/2492, 24.9.2024).’










Article 2
The texts of Regulation (EU) 2024/2492 and Delegated Regulations (EU) 2024/2555 and (EU) 2024/2570 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 15 March 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, 14 March 2025.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Nicolas VON LINGEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L, 2024/2492, 24.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2492/oj.

(2)  
            OJ L, 2024/2555, 27.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2024/2555/oj.

(3)  
            OJ L, 2024/2570, 27.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2024/2570/oj.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2025/984/oj
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