Bilateral relations between the Faroe Islands and the European Union – formal texts

Trade Agreement (1997)

• The Agreement - articles 1-40
• Protocol 1
• Protocol 2
• Protocol 3
• Protocol 4
• Protocol 5
• Protocol on Veterinary Matters
• Decision 1/2001

Amendments made to the Trade Agreement, including the Veterinary Protocol

• Free Trade Agreement - original agreement
• Amended by DECISION 1/2010 - amending Annex II of Protocol 3
• Amended by DECISION 2/1998 - amending Protocol 4 of the Agreement
• Amended by DECISION 1/1999 - replacing Protocol 1 of the Agreement concerning the tariff treatment
• Amended by DECISION 2/2001 - amending Table II of the Annex to Protocol 1 Amended by DECISION 1/2002 - introducing Article 20a in Protocol 3 on "originating products" and methods of administrative cooperation
• Amended by DECISION 1/2005 - amending Protocol 3 concerning the definition of the concept of "originating products" and methods of administrative cooperation
• Amended by DECISION 1/2006 - amending Tables I and II of the Annex to Protocol 1
• Amended by DECISION 1/2007 - amending Protocol 4 of the Agreement
• Amended by DECISION 2/2008 - amending Tables I and II of the Annex to Protocol 1 Council DECISION 15 Nov 1999 - conclusion of a Protocol on Veterinary Matters supplementing the Agreement
• Protocol on VETERINARY MATTERS - the Protocol on Veterinary Matters
• DECISION 1/2001 on VETERINARY MATTERS - provisions to implement the Protocol on Veterinary Matters
• DECISION 2/2005 on VETERINARY MATTERS - amending Decision No 1/2001 on Veterinary Matters
• DECISION No 1/2008 OF THE EC-FAROE ISLANDS JOINT COMMITTEE - amending Decision No 1/2001 on Veterinary Matters

Framework Fisheries Agreement (1980)

Agreement on Fisheries between the European Economic Community, of the one part, and the Government of Denmark and the Home Government of the Faroe Islands, of the other part

• Annual agreed records of consultations between the Faroe Islands and the EU on mutual fisheries relations can be found on the website of the Ministry of Fisheries.

Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (2014)

• Sáttmáli um vísindaligt og tøkniligt samstarv millum Føroyar og Evropeiska Samveldið, ið atlimar Føroyar til Horizon 2020 – Rammuskráin um granksing og innovation (2014-2020)
• Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and the Faroe Islands, associating the Faroe Islands to Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020)

EU recognition of adequacy of personal data protection in the Faroe Islands

The European Commission has recognized the Faroe Islands as providing adequate protection of personal data in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.

The effect of this decision is that personal data can flow from the 28 EU countries and Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland to the Faroe Islands without any further safeguard being necessary. Such an adequacy decision does not cover data exchanges in the law enforcement sector.

• European Commission - Commission Decision of 5 March 2010 pursuant to Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the adequate protection provided by the Faroese Act on processing of personal data
• European Commission - Opinion 9/2007 on the level of protection of personal data in the Faroe Islands, Adopted on 9 October 2007