The EFTA was established on 3 May 1960 as a trade bloc-alternative for European states who were either unable or unwilling to join the then-European Economic Community ( EEC ) which has now become the EU.

British reaction to the creation of the EEC was mixed and complex.

The main difference between the early EEC and the EFTA was the absence of a common external customs tariff, and therefore each EFTA member was free to establish individual customs duties against trade with non EFTA countries.

This was, however, rather less than the increase enjoyed by countries inside the EEC.

The flag is triangular and quartered blue and yellow and was adopted according to EEC Regulation # 1382 / 87 on 20 May 1978.

The gallon was removed from the list of legally defined primary units of measure catalogued in the EU directive 80 / 181 / EEC, for trading and official purposes, with effect from 31 December 1994.

A trade agreement with the EEC was complemented by another with the Soviet Bloc.

It was one of the six founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) in 1952 and of the European Economic Community ( EEC ) in 1957.

It was originally developed in the late 1980s for six European languages by the EEC ESPRIT information technology research and development program.

By the time the EEC was being phased into the European Union in 1993, that bloc's agricultural committees had announced their intention to eliminate preferred access of Windward Islands crops to the United Kingdom, which will cause considerable reduction in the prices which banana crops previously commanded.

Concurrently, Finland was negotiating a free-trade agreement with the EEC, and as the EEC agreement promoted economic integration with the West, it was supported by NCP.

In November 1967, he arrived during a debate on the EEC and was met with cries of " Shame " to "' Op it ".

Powell said the issue of British membership of the EEC was one where " if there be a conflict between the call of country and that of party, the call of country must come first ":

The principle was at the heart of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) in the Treaty of Paris ( 1951 ), following the " Schuman Declaration " and the later the Treaties of Rome establishing the European Economic Community ( EEC ) and the European Atomic Energy Community ( EAEC ).

Entering the Cabinet as Minister of Labour in 1959, he was then Lord Privy Seal responsible for Macmillan's unsuccessful EEC entry negotiations, then President of the Board of Trade.

During the renegotiations, other EEC members conceded, as a partial offset, the establishment of a significant European Regional Development Fund ( ERDF ), from which it was clearly agreed that the UK would be a major net beneficiary.

One of the key issues addressed during his second period in office was the referendum on British membership of the EEC ( see Europe, above ).

The Social Democrats ' volte face on possible accession to the EEC was most likely a prerequisite for the positive referendum result ) and Bildt signed the accession treaty at the European Union summit of Corfu, Greece, on 23 June 1994.

Although he preferred integration of a wider group of European states he accepted the group of Six of the EEC and defended the supranational structure it was based on.

His position had been undermined the previous year by his decision to lead sixty-nine Labour MPs through the division lobby in support of the Heath's government's motion to take Britain into the EEC.

She publicly opposed the proposed free trade agreement of the European Economic Community ( EEC, later European Union ) in 1973, by signing a petition along with 500 other more-or-less prominent social democrats and socialists.

The EU's standard toxic symbol, as defined by Directive 67 / 548 / EEC.

Gradually his views on Gaullist foreign policies were shared by the other EEC members and they joined Luns in his objections.

* Ford EEC, an Electronic Engine Controller designed by Ford Motor Company

These have been banned in the European Union by EU Directive 76 / 769 / EEC.

These were produced in France but avoided the crippling import duties of the 1950s, because the UK was by then a member of the EEC.

In his diary ( 25 October 1977 ) Benn wrote that he " loathed " the EEC ; he claimed it was " bureaucratic and centralised " and " of course it is really dominated by Germany.

) Despite the beauty of the planet, the EEC team were puzzled by a repeated random pattern of circles of bare dirt, which they observed across the whole globe.

This meant that the EEC no longer depended exclusively on contributions by the member states, but could complete these with revenues from customs duties, levies on agricultural products from outside the Community, in addition to a share of the VAT revenue.

In the European Union, animal sources are governed by Council Directive 86 / 609 / EEC, which requires lab animals to be specially bred, unless the animal has been lawfully imported and is not a wild animal or a stray.

The Trans-European road network ( TERN ) was defined by Council Decision 93 / 629 / EEC of October 29, 1993, and is a project to improve the internal road infrastructure of the European Union ( EU ).

Decision 93 / 629 / EEC expired on 30th June 1995 so it was further expanded by the Decision No 1692 / 96 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 on Community guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network, which added definition not only to the proposed road network, but to other Trans-European Transport Networks ( TEN-T ), as they came to be called.

Milton Obote of Uganda was the first to propose a specifically titled ' secretariat ', which was then formally proposed by Eric Williams of Trinidad and Tobago, who wished to see it based upon the secretariats of the OAS, EEC, and OAU.

Council Directive 91 / 271 / EEC on Urban Wastewater Treatment was adopted on 21 May 1991, amended by the Commission Directive 98 / 15 / EC.

It was established by the Euratom Treaty on 25 March 1957 alongside the European Economic Community / EEC, being taken over by the executive institutions of the EEC in 1967.

He campaigned in the 1975 referendum in which Britain voted to remain part of the EEC and remained active on the international stage, serving on the Brandt Commission investigation into developmental issues, particularly on North-South projects ( Brandt Report ).

The European Commission has said repeatedly that the " Directive on the protection of the environment, and in particular of the soil, when sewage sludge is used in agriculture " ( 86 / 278 / EEC ) has been very successful in that there have been no cases of adverse effect where it has been applied.

Commission Decision 93 / 481 / EEC defines the information that Member States should provide the Commission on the state of implementation of the Directive.

It brought political parties and European trade unions together to become a driving force behind the initiatives which laid the foundation for the European Union as it eventually emerged: first the European Economic Community ( EEC ) ( 1958 ) ( known commonly as the " Common Market "), which was established by the Treaty of Rome of 1957 ; later the European Community ( 1967 ) with its corresponding bodies, the European Commission and the European Council of Ministers, British membership in the Community ( 1973 ), the European Council ( 1974 ), the European Monetary System ( 1979 ), and the European Parliament ( 1979 ).

Solomon Islands is a member of the United Nations, Commonwealth, South Pacific Commission, Pacific Islands Forum, International Monetary Fund, and the European Economic Community / African, Caribbean, Pacific Group ( EEC / ACP )/( Lome Convention ).

The Commission and Council of the EEC were to take over the responsibilities of its counterparts in the other organizations.

The first Commission President following the creation of the EU was Jacques Delors, who briefly continued his previous EEC tenure before handing over to Jacques Santer in 1994.

The 1967 treaty gave the Council and Commission of the EEC responsibility over ECSC and EAEC affairs, abolishing the Councils of the ECSC and EAEC, the Commission of the EAEC and the High Authority of the ECSC.

This transfer of national powers to a " Community " to be exercised by its Commission was paralleled under the 1957 Treaty of Rome establishing the European Atomic Energy Community ( or Euratom ) and the European Economic Community ( EEC ) in Brussels.

European Monetary System ( EMS ) was an arrangement established in 1979 under the Jenkins European Commission where most nations of the European Economic Community ( EEC ) linked their currencies to prevent large fluctuations relative to one another.

He was Chairman of the Committee that produced The Sutherland Report on the completion of the Internal Market of the EEC, commissioned by the European Commission and presented to the European Council at its Edinburgh meeting in 1992.

The site may in future be protected as a Special Area of Conservation under the European Commission Habitats Directive ( 92 / 43 / EEC ).

It set out that the Commission of the EEC and the Council of the EEC should replace the Commission and Council of Euratom and the High Authority and Council of the ECSC.

These are designated under the European Commission Habitats Directive ( 92 / 43 / EEC ) as internationally important habitats.

In the 1980s, when the economy of the EEC began to lag behind the rest of the developed world, the Delors Commission took the initiative to attempt to relaunch the common market, publishing a White Paper in 1985 identifying 300 measures to be addressed in order to complete a single market.

He was a select committee on the European Economic Community ( EEC ) between 1979 and 1981, and a member of the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England from 1985 to 1987 ( now English Heritage ) and the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts from 1987 to 1994.