Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 118/2025 of 8 May 2025 amending Annex IX (Financial services) to the EEA Agreement [2025/1362]
Date: 2025-05-08
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: European Economic Area, European Investment Fund, investment company, investment project, investment promotion, investment protection, long-term financing, regulation of investments, revision of an agreement




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 118/2025
of 8 May 2025
         
amending Annex IX (Financial services) to the EEA Agreement [2025/1362]


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)


Regulation (EU) 2023/606 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2023 amending Regulation (EU) 2015/760 as regards the requirements pertaining to the investment policies and operating conditions of European long-term investment funds and the scope of eligible investment assets, the portfolio composition and diversification requirements and the borrowing of cash and other fund rules (1), as corrected by OJ L, 2024/90509, 17.9.2024, is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


The EFTA States shall, when defining what jurisdictions shall be on the list of non-cooperative jurisdictions in their national legislation, take utmost account of the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes.












(3)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
Point 31bgc (Regulation (EU) 2015/760 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex IX to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:






1.


The following is added:

                              ‘, as amended by:






—



32023 R 0606: Regulation (EU) 2023/606 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2023 (OJ L 80, 20.3.2023, p. 1), as corrected by OJ L, 2024/90509, 17.9.2024.’
                                 














2.


The following adaptation is inserted after adaptation (b):






‘(c)


In Article 11(1)(c), as regards the EFTA States, the words “is not mentioned in Annex I to the Council conclusions on the revised EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes” shall read “is not identified as a non-cooperative jurisdiction as defined by the national legislation of the EFTA States concerned”.’










Article 2
The text of Regulation (EU) 2023/606, as corrected by OJ L, 2024/90509, 17.9.2024, 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 9 May 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, 8 May 2025.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Nicolas VON LINGEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 80, 20.3.2023, p. 1.

(*1)  Constitutional requirements indicated.


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