Standing Committee of the EFTA States  

The Standing Committee of the EFTA States serves as a forum in which the EEA EFTA States consult one another and arrive at a common position before meeting with the EU in the EEA Joint Committee.

It is made up of the Ambassadors of Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein to the EU and observers from Switzerland and the EFTA Surveillance Authority. The Committee’s sub-structure consists of five subcommittees, under which there are several working groups. The Internal Market is governed by the so-called four freedoms, enabling the free movement of goods, servicescapital and persons in the EEA, the five Subcommittees manages these four freedoms:

Rules of procedure for the Standing Committee of the EFTA States

Standing Committee Decision No 1/2012/SC of 30 April 2012 on procedures for the incorporation of EU acts into the EEA Agreement

Chairmanship 
 

Subcommittees under the Standing Committee

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