EEA COLLECTION

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The EEA collection brings together and interlinks documents concerning the European Economic Area and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). » More information

 

The EEA search form allows full text searching of all materials from the EFTA Court and EFTA Secretariat. Hypertext links jump to cited information in the core database. The EEA collection contains:

• Judgments and reports of hearings from 1994 onwards
• EFTA Agreement
• Rules of Procedure
• EEA Agreement, Annexes and Protocols (plus declarations, final act)
• Adopted Joint Committee Decisions
• Surveillance and Court Agreement
• Standing Committee Agreement
• EFTA Parliamentary Committee Agreement
• EFTA Convention including Annexes

Copyright Notice: Reproduction of these documents is authorised by the EFTA Court and EFTA Secretariat. The documents are also freely available in pdf or Word format on their websites.

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• EEA materials can be retrieved from the EEA specific search form or Search all.
• You can search for a term, phrase or document number across the whole collection.
• Use Type search field to retrieve a judgment, decision, agreement..
• Click to start your search.

Background information

The European Economic Area (EEA) since 1 May 2004 unites the 25 EU Member States and the three EEA EFTA States (Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway) into an Internal Market governed by the same basic rules. These rules aim to enable goods, services, capital, and persons to move freely about the EEA in an open and competitive environment, a concept referred to as the four freedoms.

Based on these overall goals, EFTA today maintains the management of the EFTA Convention (intra-EFTA trade), the EEA Agreement (EFTA-EU relations), and the EFTA free trade agreements (third country relations). The EFTA Convention and the EFTA free trade agreements are managed from the Geneva office, the EEA Agreement from the Brussels office.

The EFTA Court based in Luxembourg fulfils the judicial function within the EFTA system, interpreting the Agreement on the European Economic Area with regard to the EFTA States party to the Agreement.

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