The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is an intergovernmental organisation set up for the promotion of free trade and economic integration to the benefit of its four Member States: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
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Delegations from the EFTA States and Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan met for a fourth round of negotiations on a broad-based preferential trade agreement from 16 to 19 January 2012 in Kazan, Russia.
On 19 January 2012, a record 170 participants from both the public and private sectors attended the EFTA Secretariat’s biannual seminar on the EEA.
The first part of the seminar was dedicated to presentations on the EFTA Secretariat, the EFTA Court, the EFTA Surveillance Authority, the EFTA Statistical Office and the EFTA Financial Mechanism Office. These focused on the day-to-day management of the EEA Agreement in the different institutions’ respective areas of competence.
The EEA Joint Committee decided yesterday to incorporate the Directive on the promotion of the use of renewable energy sources (RES Directive) into the EEA Agreement. Norway and Iceland have had the highest share of renewable energy in their power consumption in the European Economic Area (EEA).
This two-page factsheet gives a general overview of the role and tasks of the European Free Trade Association. Several other factsheets can also be downloaded from our website.
EFTA Bulletin issue 1, 2011. The purpose of the updated handbook is to describe the institutional and practical aspects of EFTA statistical cooperation within and outside the EEA Agreement and the Swiss-EU Agreement.
This publication is an overview of EFTA's activities and institutional framework.
50th Annual Report of the European Free Trade Association, 2010.
EFTA Bulletin issue 1, 2010.
This publication is an updated overview of EU programmes with EEA EFTA participation.
In 2010, the European Free Trade Association celebrated its 50th anniversary. The EFTA Convention entered into force on 3 May 1960. You can read more about the publication and order it here.
This commemorative publication revisits the origins of the European Economic Area (EEA) and reproduces extracts of some of the key official texts and documents from the time of its inception, supplemented by pictures from its first 15 years of functioning.