Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 248/2025 of 24 October 2025 amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2026/235]
Date: 2025-10-24
Institutions: EEA Joint Committee
Subjects: EU Emissions Trading Scheme, EU emission allowance, EU environmental policy, European Economic Area, derogation from EU law, harbour installation, island, maritime transport, revision of an agreement, services of general interest




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            DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 248/2025
of 24 October 2025
         
amending Annex XX (Environment) to the EEA Agreement [2026/235]


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 Decision (EU) 2023/2895 of 19 December 2023 laying down the list of islands and ports referred to in Article 12(3-d) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and the list of transnational public service contracts or transnational public service obligations referred to in Article 12(3-c) of that Directive (1) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(2)


Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/1113 of 18 April 2024 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/2895 as regards the list of islands and ports referred to in Article 12(3-d) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(3)


Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2924 of 27 November 2024 amending Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/2895 as regards the list of islands and ports referred to in Article 12(3-d) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.












(4)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The following is inserted after point 21alz (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2620) of Annex XX to the EEA Agreement:






‘21alza.



32023 D 2895: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/2895 of 19 December 2023 laying down the list of islands and ports referred to in Article 12(3-d) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and the list of transnational public service contracts or transnational public service obligations referred to in Article 12(3-c) of that Directive (OJ L, 2023/2895, 22.12.2023), as amended by:






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32024 D 1113: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/1113 of 18 April 2024 (OJ L, 2024/1113, 22.4.2024),










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32024 D 2924: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2924 of 27 November 2024 (OJ L, 2024/2924, 28.11.2024).’
                                 










Article 2
The texts of Implementing Decisions (EU) 2023/2895, (EU) 2024/1113 and (EU) 2024/2924 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 25 October 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, 24 October 2025.


For the EEA Joint Committee


The President

Stefán Haukur JÓHANNESSON
            





(1)  
            OJ L, 2023/2895, 22.12.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2023/2895/oj.

(2)  
            OJ L, 2024/1113, 22.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2024/1113/oj.

(3)  
            OJ L, 2024/2924, 28.11.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2024/2924/oj.

(*1)  No constitutional requirements indicated.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2026/235/oj
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