Church, Clive H.

Dardanelli, Paolo

Mueller, Sean

English

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Advocates of this EFTA option expect major positive effects following a UK withdrawal from the EU.

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although not addressed within this text, we acknowledge that a withdrawal of the UK from the EU itself would likely result in an avalanche of consequences that are difficult to assess. Advantages of joining EFTA

an opting-out instrument exists but it is politically unusable and has never been used until now. Like in the case of the decision shaping clause, this opt-out instrument has to be agreed upon by the entirety of the EEA/EFTA pillar members.

As a result, the Oporto agreement established four different institutions:

As we have seen, these States must comply with the obligations imposed by most of the acquis, in addition to the adoption of Community law and the interpretations made by the ECJ existing prior to their EEA accession.

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Despite this seemingly balanced institutional architecture, the EEA agreement prevents significant political participation of EEA/EFTA member states in the EU decision-making process.

EEA/EFTA countries retain their full sovereignty over their trade policies in addition to the capacity of establishing their own different level of value added tax (VAT).

EFTA membership would imply a far lower British financial contribution. Costly EU policies are not included, especially the ones related to the onerous CAP.

Equally, term decline of British personnel in the EU institutions and the numbers successfully passing through among commission in addressed.

Five of the agreements posed no difficulty and concerned relatively secondary matters. The most important two – free movement of persons and overland transport – on the contrary, were the object of intense debate.

Following the rejection of the EEA agreement in a popular referendum on 6

From a legal perspective, these agreements are not interlinked, unlike the Bilateral Agreements I, and thus do not include a “guillotine clause”. Switzerland could have rejected any one of them without the others being called into question.

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if Switzerland were not able to adapt to the evolution of the relevant EU acquis, the whole agreement would not become automatically terminated (there could be however proportionate “rebalancing measures” decided by the EU).

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In exchange for internal market access, the European Commission imposed from the beginning a rigid institutional arrangement with the concept of the European Economic Area based on two pillars: EC and EFTA.

In order to accede to EFTA or to the EEA/EFTA pillar, the UK would have to follow a potentially difficult path.

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it is interesting to observe that the EFTA States preceded the EU in their free-trade agreements with Canada, Columbia, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Ukraine and South Korea. Moreover, they are also well advanced in their negotiations with India,

it provides a participation in the early stage of the legislative process.

It should be noted that the EFTA countries negotiated agreements with all States, which have concluded a Free Trade Agreement with the EU.

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no more significant agreements were signed. This can be attributed to the EU dissatisfaction regarding the continuous Swiss' strategy aiming at concluding rigid “tailormade agreements”.

Recently, the European Union demanded that Switzerland adopt the evolution of the relevant EU acquis and called for a uniform interpretation in its application.

Switzerland does not adopt automatically the evolution of the relevant EU acquis. Although it declares itself in principle ready to adopt the new EU legislation, the internal approval processes are respected.

That being said, the European Union has constantly repeated that the 24 hours agreement will not serve as a framework model for the future of the Swiss-EU relations. C- Advantages and disadvantages of the two options

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the EEA agreement provides a cooperation framework between EU and EEA/EFTA states in matters concerning research, development, tourism and civil protection.

the EEA is not related to the Economic and Monetary Union

the EEA, the Bilateral Agreements enable a third-party country (in this case Switzerland) to negotiate on an individual basis.

The EU and Switzerland also signed a second series of Bilateral Agreements (BA II) on October 26,

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The financial solidarity towards less affluent countries and regions of the EU that would have been asked from Switzerland as a member of the EEA would be greater than that required under the Bilateral Agreements I and

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the settlement of dispute about the interpretation or application of the agreement is also very creative because it is not let to the EU Court of Justice but to the Joint Committee or to an ad hoc arbitration.

The structure of the Bilateral Agreements I and II is light and does not create any new institutions. This distinguishes it from the EEA which was more unwieldy and based on a two-pillar system relying on a galaxy of institutions.

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There has been increased domestic pressure demanding that the United Kingdom (UK) leave the European Union.

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They also argue that EFTA states (especially Norway and Switzerland which are the two biggest members) are more prospering economically than the EU countries and, consequently, that their levels of unemployment and debts are much

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This contrasts sharply with the EEA agreement since there are no such possibilities of independent arbitration on the proportionality of the EU rebalancing measures.

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This technical agreement offers interesting institutional components.

Thus, it is plausible that a country with a larger GDP such as the UK would have to disburse much more than the above-mentioned amount if it was to join the EEA/EFTA pillar or even to adopt a Swiss approach through the use of bilateral relations.

Thus, these Bilateral Agreements I and II differ from the EEA, where the EEA/EFTA countries are almost obliged to integrate developments of the relevant acquis.

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we are also aware that the circumstances of a return of the UK into EFTA are not comparable to the situation of EEA/EFTA countries as well as Switzerland.

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Within the following analysis, our goal is not to argue for or against the UK leaving the EU. This is a political decision to be taken by the British themselves.

The 'Swiss Model' of Relations with the EU and its Relevance for the UK

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The 'Swiss Model' of Relations with the EU and its Relevance for the UK

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