SUBCOMMITTEE I ON THE FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS – LIST OF THE NATIONAL DECISIONS ACCORDING TO REGULATION (EU) 2018/848 ART. 45 AND 47 – To be noted by the EEA Joint Committee
Date: 2025-06-05
Institutions: Standing Committee of the EFTA States
Subjects: EFTA countries, European Economic Area, consumer information, directory, import (EU), labelling, organic farming, organic product, third country








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SUBCOMMITTEE I ON THE FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS
LIST OF THE NATIONAL DECISIONS ACCORDING TO REGULATION (EU) 2018/848 ART. 45 AND 47
(C/2025/3181)
To be noted by the EEA Joint Committee


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Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 (32018R0848) was incorporated into the EEA Agreement by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 31/2022 of 4 February 2022.



2.   

According to the EEA Joint Committee Decision No 31/2022, the following paragraph shall be added to Article 47 of Regulation (EU) 2018/848: ‘When the Union has recognised a third country in accordance with this provision, it shall notify the Standing Committee of the EFTA States. The EFTA States shall within 30 days of receiving the notification take a decision on the recognition of equivalence of the third country and the product conditions specified in the Union notification. The EEA Joint Committee shall be informed of these decisions and shall periodically publish a list of the decisions in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union.’



3.   
The European Union notified the Standing Committee of the EFTA States that the Union has recognised respectively Chile, Switzerland and the United Kingdom as having a system of production meeting the same objectives and principles by applying rules which ensure the same level of assurance of conformity as those of the Union:






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Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Chile on trade in organic products (OJ L 331, 14.12.2017, p. 4) (entered into force on 1 January 2018). N.B.: Chile was added in Annex III to Regulation 1235/2008 through Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/949 (OJ L 167, 4.7.2018, p. 3).










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Annex 9 to Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products (OJ L 114, 30.4.2002, p. 132) (entered into force on 1 June 2002) as subsequently amended by Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation amending the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products (OJ L 136, 30.5.2009, p. 2) and Decision No 2/2015 of the Joint Committee on Agriculture of 19 November 2015 on the amendment of Appendices 1 and 2 to Annex 9 to the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products (OJ L 323, 9.12.2015, p. 29).










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Annex 14 to Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part (OJ L 149, 30.4.2021, p. 10) (provisionally applied since 1 January 2021 and entered into force on 1 May 2021)






4.   

The EEA EFTA States have on 27 September 2024 notified the EFTA Secretariat of their national decisions.



5.   

Based on the notifications from the EEA EFTA States, the EFTA Secretariat has made a list of the national decisions.



6.   

This list is to be taken note of by the EEA Joint Committee at their next meeting.



7.   

The list is to be published in the EEA supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union once it has been taken note of by the EEA Joint Committee.






ANNEX I
List of the national decisions according to Regulation (EU) 2018/848 on Organic Production Articles 45 and 47

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REGLUGERÐ um lífræna framleiðslu og merkingu lífrænt ræktaðra vara.



https://island.is/reglugerdir/nr/0205-2023






Norway







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Forskrift om økologisk produksjon og merking av økologiske landbruksprodukter, akvakulturprodukter, næringsmidler og fôr m.m. (økologiforskriften) – FOR-2022-06-11-1171



Forskrift om økologisk produksjon og merking av økologiske landbruksprodukter, akvakulturprodukter, næringsmidler og fôr m.m. (økologiforskriften)








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