EFTA or EU? Unemployment UK 7.8% Norway 3.2% Switzerland 3.7%
EFTA = European Free Trade Association www.efta.int
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European Economic Area Four Freedoms Free movement of goods
Free movement of services Free movement of capital Free movement of
persons
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The EEA does not cover EU Customs Union (towards third
countries) Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies EU Regional
Policy Common Trade Policy Economic and Monetary Union Justice and
Home Affairs Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy
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What are the differences between EFTA and the EU EFTA EU New
regulations per year 300 1000+ Financial contributions to EU 3.9bn
6bn Accounts signed off Every year Not for 15 years Employees 90
10,000+ Responsibility for fishing UK EU Responsibility for
agriculture UK EU Responsibility for Home Affairs UK EU
Responsibility for Justice UK EU
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What are the differences between EFTA and the EU EFTA EU Free
movement in EU of: People Yes Yes Goods Yes Yes Services Yes Yes
Capital Yes Yes Member of EEA Yes Yes Offices in Brussels Yes Yes
Member of NATO Security Yes Yes Alliance Key legal document
Convention Treaty Pages in key legal document 30 200+ Referendum:
Which would you prefer EFTA or EU?
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EFTA and the world
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Opinion poll Which have you heard of? EFTA = 37% EU = 95% Which
would you prefer? EFTA = 39% EU = 36% Dont know =25%......an
opportunity
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Access to European Union law 01. General, financial and
institutional matters 02. Customs Union and free movement of goods
03. Agriculture 04. Fisheries 05. Freedom of movement for workers
and social policy 06. Right of establishment and freedom to provide
services 07. Transport policy 08. Competition policy 09. Taxation
10. Economic and monetary policy and free movement of capital 11.
External relations 12. Energy 13. Industrial policy and internal
market 14. Regional policy and coordination of structural
instruments 15. Environment, consumers and health protection 16.
Science, information, education and culture 17. Law relating to
undertakings 18. Common Foreign and Security Policy 19. Area of
freedom, security and justice 20. People's Europe
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08. Competition policy08. Competition policy (10777)
52009XC1229(02) Summary of Commission Decision of 3 October 2007
relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty (Case
COMP/38710 Bitumen Spain) (notified under document C(2007) 4441
final) OJ C 321, 29.12.2009, p. 1517 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL,
EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
Bibliographic notice Bibliographic notice + Text (bilingual
display) html pdf Bibliographic notice Bibliographic notice + Text
(bilingual display) htmlpdf 32009R0487 Council Regulation (EC) No
487/2009 of 25 May 2009 on the application of Article 81(3) of the
Treaty to certain categories of agreements and concerted practices
in the air transport sector (Codified version) (Text with EEA
relevance) OJ L 148, 11.6.2009, p. 14 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL,
EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
Bibliographic notice Bibliographic notice + Text (bilingual
display) html pdf Bibliographic notice Bibliographic notice + Text
(bilingual display) htmlpdf Tracking EU and EEA Regulations
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EFTA Referendum Campaign Campaign launch Day1 Leaflet
distribution Media releases Press conference Ads in papers Youtube
video Day 2 Leaflet local EFTA talk Day 3 Opinion poll release Day
4 Launch EFTA Awards Tracking EU & EEA laws in UK Day 5 Student
EFTA awards Day 6 EFTA Awards by sector Day 7 Launch EFTA Awards
panel, Expertise, implementation
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EFTA Referendum Campaign Events speaking Local EFTA talks
University talks Organisation talks Other Organisations supporting
referendum Opinion polls EFTA or EU By party with EFTA as policy
Awards EFTA benefits, jobs, 's, other Transition options Referendum
leaflet design Award sponsors
