DECISION No 2/2024 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 16 May 2024

adding a newly adopted Union act to Annex 2 to the Windsor Framework [2024/2134]

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 ( 1 ) (‘the Withdrawal Agreement’), and in particular Article 13(4) of the Windsor Framework ( 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) A newly adopted Union act should be added to Annex 2 to the Windsor Framework,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Regulation (EU) 2023/2419 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 October 2023 on the labelling of organic pet food ( 3 ) shall be added to Annex 2 to the Windsor Framework under point 34 ‘Feed – products and hygiene’.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 16 May 2024.

For the Joint Committee

The Co-chairs

Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ

David CAMERON

( 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 ) OJ EU L, 2023/2419, 27.10.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2419/oj .

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/2134/oj

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