Council Decision (EU) 2025/2128 of 13 October 2025 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee concerning the amendment to Annex X (Services in general), Annex XI (Electronic communication, audiovisual services and information society) and Protocol 37 (containing the list provided for in Article 101) to the EEA Agreement (Data Governance Act) (Text with EEA relevance)

The position to be adopted, on behalf of the Union, within the EEA Joint Committee on the proposed amendment of Annex X (Services in general), Annex XI (Electronic communication, audiovisual services and information society) and Protocol 37 (containing the list provided for in Article 101) to the EEA Agreement shall be based on the draft decision of the EEA Joint Committee attached to this Decision.

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

The following is added in point 5 (Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 of the European Parliament and of the Council) of Annex X to the EEA Agreement: ‘, as amended by: 32022 R 0868: Regulation (EU) 2022/868 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 (OJ L 152, 3.6.2022, p. 1).’

“9a As regards an entity registered in the public national register of recognised data intermediation services providers of an EFTA State, the entity may use the label ‘data intermediation services provider recognised in the EEA’.”

“2a As regards an entity registered in the public national register of recognised data altruism organisations of an EFTA State, the entity may use the label ‘data altruism organisation recognised in the EEA’.”

The following point is added in Protocol 37 to the EEA Agreement: ‘49. European Data Innovation Board (Regulation (EU) 2022/868 of the European Parliament and of the Council).’

The texts of Regulation (EU) 2022/868 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1622 in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages, to be published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be authentic.

This Decision shall enter into force on …, provided that all the notifications under Article 103(1) of the EEA Agreement have been made , or on the day of the entry into force of Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 333/2022 of 9 December 2022 , whichever is later.

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