mercalia wrote:pete75 wrote:mercalia wrote:
I wonder about that. The Norway deal has Norway as a vassal state following the EU dictates? The Labour party want a customs union as far as I understand it ie a union of equals ( not likely?)? Since May has dominated the arena there hasnt been much debate what these other alternatives really mean and whether mps could really stomach them in the light of day?
A ridiculous Brexiter word.
Norway has to abide by EEA rules but not those of the EU.
"I
nfluenceNorway, Iceland and Liechtenstein do not have formal access to the EU decision-making process, but are able to give input during the preparatory phase, when the Commission draws up proposals for new legislation that is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement. "
In other words they have influence on what is put into the legilsation.
"
Same rules and conditionsA central principle of the EEA Agreement is homogeneity, which means that the same rules and conditions of competition apply to all economic operators within the EEA. To maintain homogeneity, the EEA Agreement is continuously updated and amended to ensure that the legislation of the EEA EFTA states is in line with EU Single Market legislation."
so who is wearing the trousers?
https://www.norway.no/en/missions/eu/areas-of-cooperation/the-eea-agreement/still has to accept the the
EU Single Market's four freedoms, as well as non-discrimination and equal rules of competition throughout the EEA area.
The whole idea of having a Norway style agreement is that we carry on with the four freedoms, single market etc.
http://efta4uk.eu/wp-content/uploads/20 ... Norway.pdfTo quote the EFTA website:
“The EEA Agreement does not cover the following EU policies:
Common Agriculture and Fisheries Policies;
Customs Union;
Common Trade Policy;
Common Foreign and Security Policy;
Justice and Home Affairs; or
Monetary Union (EMU).
"Since the EEA was born in 1992, Norway and Iceland have each
adopted around 3,000 EU legal acts (the figure is lower in
Liechtenstein, which joined later). But few of these rules were
important enough to need legislation in those countries: the 3,000
legislative acts have required fewer than 50 parliamentary statutes
in the Norway’s Storting and Iceland’s Althing. They deal with such
matters as the correct way to list ingredients on a ketchup bottle;
they do not tell the Norwegians and Icelanders what to tax, where
to fish, whom to employ or what surplus to run. And it is not true
that the EEA states have no say over these rules. There are formal
consultation mechanisms built into the EEA accord. Oddly, those
who point so excitedly to the 3,000 Euro-laws adopted by Norway
neglect to mention the 18,000 that Britain has had to accept over
the same period.”
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