Institution or law · EEA Agreement Art. 1(1)
European Economic Area
In plain English
The EU Member States plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, which share the EU single market. The GDPR was incorporated into the EEA Agreement in 2018, so it applies in those three countries too.
What the law says
The aim of this Agreement of association is to promote a continuous and balanced strengthening of trade and economic relations between the Contracting Parties with equal conditions of competition, and the respect of the same rules, with a view to creating a homogeneous European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as the EEA.
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 … is to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement.
Related
Official website: efta.int/eea ↗
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