EES-samningurinn nær til um 70–75% af regluverki innri markaðar ESB og tryggir fjórfrelsi vöru, þjónustu, fjármagns og fólks. Utan samningsins falla þó meðal annars sameiginleg landbúnaðarstefna, sameiginleg sjávarútvegsstefna, tollabandalagið, utanríkis- og öryggisstefna og myntbandalagið. Yfir 13.000 lagagerðir hafa verið innleiddar frá 1994.
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The EEA Agreement gives Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway access to the EU's single market by incorporating relevant EU legislation into their national law. The EEA covers approximately 70–75% of the EU acquis by volume (measured by number of legal acts), focusing on the 'four freedoms': free movement of goods, persons, services, and capital. However, major policy areas are excluded from the EEA: the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), the Customs Union (Iceland maintains its own customs tariff), the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), Justice and Home Affairs (partially — Schengen is separate), Economic and Monetary Union (euro), and the EU's common trade policy (Iceland conducts its own trade agreements with non-EU countries). The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) and EFTA Court provide institutional oversight for EEA EFTA states, mirroring the European Commission and CJEU respectively. As of 2025, over 13,000 EU legal acts had been incorporated into the EEA Agreement since 1994, with approximately 200–400 new acts incorporated annually through EEA Joint Committee decisions.
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EFTA Secretariat — The EEA Agreement; ESA Internal Market Scoreboard; EEA Joint Committee
Skrifstofa EFTA annast daglegan rekstur EES-samningsins og veitir upplýsingar um lagalega umgjörð og innleiðingu ESB-gerða í EES/EFTA-ríkjunum.
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The '70–75%' figure is an approximation that depends on how one measures acquis coverage (number of acts, pages, or policy areas). By number of policy areas, the EEA covers a smaller proportion because entire domains (agriculture, fisheries, monetary policy, foreign policy, defence) are excluded. By volume of individual legal acts, the coverage is higher because single market legislation is extensive. Some commentators say Icelanders 'already implement most EU rules' — this is true in the narrow sense of single market regulation but misses the substantial areas of EU policy that fall entirely outside the EEA.
Notuð í greiningum (2)
Kvótahopp og ESB Vísir
- Að hluta staðfest Andmælir Sjavarutvegur er undanskilinn EES-samningnum og vegna theirrar undanthagu geta islensk log bannath erlendum adilum ad eiga meira en 25% (eda 33% obeint) i islenskum utgerthum.
- Staðfest Styður ESB hvílir á fjórum frelsisréttindum (fjórfrelsið) — þar á meðal staðfesturétti og frjálsu flæði fjármagns.
Ræða þarf alla kaflana á nýjan leik Morgunblaðið
- Staðfest Styður Margir samningakaflar um efnahags- og markaðsmál voru auðveldir vegna þess að Ísland er þegar í EES-samningnum.