Agreement on the European Economic Area

SECTORAL ADAPTATIONS

Unless otherwise provided for, the provisions of this Annex shall, for the purposes of the present Agreement, be read with the following adaptations:

I.

the term ‘Commission’ shall read ‘competent surveillance authority’;

II.

the term ‘common market’ shall read ‘the territory covered by the EEA Agreement’;

III.

the term ‘trade between Member States’ shall read ‘trade between Contracting Parties’;

IV.

the term ‘the Commission and the authorities of the Member States’ shall read ‘the EC Commission, the EFTA Surveillance Authority, the authorities of the EC Member States and of the EFTA States’;

V.

References to Articles of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) or the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) shall be read as references to the EEA Agreement (EEA) as follows:

Article 85 (EEC) - Article 53 (EEA),

Article 86 (EEC) - Article 54 (EEA),

Article 90 (EEC) - Article 59 (EEA),

Article 66 (ECSC) - Article 2 of Protocol 25 to the EEA Agreement,

Article 80 (ECSC) - Article 3 of Protocol 25 to the EEA Agreement.

VI.

the term ‘this Regulation’ shall read ‘this Act’;

VII.

the term ‘the competition rules of the Treaty’ shall read ‘the competition rules of the EEA Agreement’;

VIII.

the term ‘High Authority’ shall read ‘competent surveillance authority’.

Without prejudice to the rules on control of concentrations, the term ‘competent surveillance authority’ as referred to in the rules below shall read ‘the surveillance authority which is competent to decide on a case in accordance with Article 56 of the EEA Agreement’.