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DECISION No 3/2025 of the Joint Committee established by the Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU: adding 2 newly adopted Union acts to Annex 2 to the Windsor Framework (HTML)

Published 29 April 2025

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adding two newly adopted Union acts to Annex 2 to the Windsor Framework

THE JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community[footnote 1] (the ‘Withdrawal Agreement’), and in particular Article 13(4) of the Windsor Framework[footnote 2],

Whereas:

(1) Article 13(4) of the Windsor Framework empowers the Joint Committee established under Article 164(1) of the Withdrawal Agreement (the ‘Joint Committee’) to adopt decisions adding newly adopted Union acts falling within the scope of the Windsor Framework to the relevant Annexes to the Windsor Framework.

(2) Pursuant to Article 166(2) of the Withdrawal Agreement, the decisions adopted by the Joint Committee are binding on the Union and the United Kingdom. The Union and the United Kingdom are to implement such decisions, which have the same legal effect as the Withdrawal Agreement.

(3) Regulations (EU) 2024/1392[footnote 3] and (EU) 2024/1501[footnote 4] of the European Parliament and of the Council are newly adopted Union acts falling within the scope of the Windsor Framework, in accordance with the conditions applicable to them by law, which should be added to Annex 2 to the Windsor Framework. Those Regulations extend for another year the existing temporary trade-liberalisation measures for Ukraine and Moldova, respectively, set out in Regulations (EU) 2023/1077[footnote 5] and (EU) 2023/1524[footnote 6] of the European Parliament and of the Council. These latter Regulations were added to Annex 2 to the Windsor Framework on 28 September 2023 by Decision No 4/2023 of the Joint Committee[footnote 7]. Regulation (EU) 2023/1077 expired on 5 June 2024 and Regulation (EU) 2023/1524 expired on 24 July 2024,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

  1. Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products under the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part, shall be added to Annex 2 to the Windsor Framework under point 4, ‘General trade related aspects’.

  2. Regulation (EU) 2024/1501 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to products from the Republic of Moldova under the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part, shall be added to Annex 2 to the Windsor Framework under point 4, ‘General trade related aspects’.

Article 2

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

Done at London, 29 April 2025.

For the Joint Committee

The Co-chairs

Nick THOMAS-SYMONDS                                   Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ

  1. OJ EU L 29, 31.1.2020, p. 7. ↩

  2. Joint Declaration No 1/2023 of the Union and the United Kingdom in the Joint Committee established by the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community of 24 March 2023 (OJ EU L 102, 17.4.2023, p. 87). ↩

  3. Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products under the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part (OJ EU L, 2024/1392, 29.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1392/oj). ↩

  4. Regulation (EU) 2024/1501 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to products from the Republic of Moldova under the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part (OJ EU L, 2024/1501, 29.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1501/oj). ↩

  5. Regulation (EU) 2023/1077 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2023 on temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products under the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part (OJ EU L 144, 5.6.2023, p. 1). ↩

  6. Regulation (EU) 2023/1524 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 July 2023 on temporary trade-liberalisation measures supplementing trade concessions applicable to products from the Republic of Moldova under the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part (OJ EU L 185, 24.7.2023, p. 1). ↩

  7. Decision No 4/2023 of the Joint Committee established by the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community of 28 September 2023 adding two newly adopted Union acts to Annex 2 to the Windsor Framework (OJ EU L, 2023/2471, 7.11.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2023/2471/oj). ↩

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