Council Decision (EU) 2025/1757 of 8 July 2025 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning the amendment to Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) and Annex IV (Energy) to the EEA Agreement (EED) (Text with EEA relevance)

• CELEX: Decision (EU) 2025/1757
• Articles: 7

Article 1

The position to be adopted, on behalf of the Union, within the EEA Joint Committee on the proposed amendment of Annex II (Technical regulations, standards, testing and certification) and Annex IV (Energy) to the EEA Agreement, shall be based on the draft decision of the EEA Joint Committee attached to this Decision.

Article 1

The following is added in point 6 (Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Chapter IV of Annex II to the EEA Agreement:

‘, as amended by:

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32012 L 0027 : Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 ( OJ L 315, 14.11.2012, p. 1 ).’

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

Article 2

Annex IV to the EEA Agreement shall be amended as follows:

1.

The text of point 24 (Directive 2004/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) is replaced by the following:

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32012 L 0027 : Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on energy efficiency, amending Directives 2009/125/EC and 2010/30/EU and repealing Directives 2004/8/EC and 2006/32/EC ( OJ L 315, 14.11.2012, p. 1 ), as amended by:

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32018 L 2002 : Directive (EU) 2018/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 ( OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 210 ).

The provisions of the Directive shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptations:

(a)

Articles 1(1) and 3(1)(a) and third subparagraph of Article 7(1) shall not apply to the EFTA States.

(b)

In Article 3(5), the following subparagraph shall be added:

“Each EFTA State shall set a national indicative energy efficiency target for 2030, based on either primary or final energy consumption, or energy intensity, as part of its respective integrated national energy and climate plan in accordance with Articles 3 and 7 to 12 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.”

(c)

In Article 5(1), the words “, or, as regards Iceland, obligations in accordance with national legislation in Iceland” shall be inserted after the words “Article 4 of Directive 2010/31/EU”.

(d)

In point (b) of Article 7(1), the following sentence shall be added:

“By way of derogation from the requirement in the first sentence of this point, Iceland shall achieve new savings each year from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2030 equivalent to 0,24 % of annual final energy consumption, averaged over the most recent three-year period prior to 1 January 2019.”

(e)

Article 9 shall not apply to Iceland as regards metering for gas.

(f)

In Article 9a(1), the words “, or the equivalent energy consumption as regards Iceland” shall be inserted after the words “actual energy consumption”.

(g)

Articles 9a and 9c shall not apply to district heating systems in Iceland with fewer than 1 500 end-users.

(h)

Article 9b shall not apply to Iceland.

(i)

Article 10 shall not apply to Iceland as regards billing information for gas.

(j)

In Article 20(5), the reference to Article 5(1) shall be replaced by a reference to Article 5.

(k)

Articles 14 and 15 shall not apply to Iceland as regards geothermal cogeneration.’

2.

The following is added in point 26 (Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council):

‘, as amended by:

—

32012 L 0027 : Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 ( OJ L 315, 14.11.2012, p. 1 ).’

Article 3

The texts of Directives 2012/27/EU and (EU) 2018/2002 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 4

This Decision shall enter into force on, … provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made  ( *1 ) .

Article 5

This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union .