# Regulation (EEC) No 2840/72 of the Council of 19 December 1972 concluding an Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation and adopting provisions for its implementation and concluding an additional Agreement concerning the validity, for the Principality of Liechtenstein of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation of 22 July 1972, Attachment

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

AGREEMENT
between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation
THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY,
of the one part, and
THE SWISS CONFEDERATION,
of the other part,
DESIRING to consolidate and to extend, upon the enlargement of the European Economic Community, the economic relations existing between the Community and Switzerland and to ensure, with due regard for fair conditions of competition, the harmonious development of their commerce for the purpose of contributing to the work of constructing Europe,
RESOLVED to this end to eliminate progressively the obstacles to substantially all their trade, in accordance with the provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade concerning the establishment of free trade areas,
DECLARING their readiness to examine, in the light of any relevant factor, and in particular of developments in the Community, the possibility of developing and deepening their relations where it would appear to be useful in the interests of their economies to extend them to fields not covered by this Agreement,
HAVE DECIDED, in pursuit of these objectives and considering that no provision of this Agreement may be interpreted as exempting the Contracting Parties from the obligations which are incumbent upon them under other international agreements,
TO CONCLUDE THIS AGREEMENT:
Udfærdiget i Bruxelles, den toogtyvende juli nitten hundrede og tooghalvfjerds.
Geschehen zu Brüssel am zweiundzwanzigsten Juli neunzehnhundertzweiundsiebzig.
Done at Brussels on this twenty-second day of July in the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy-two.
Fait à Bruxelles, le vingt-deux juillet mil neuf cent soixante-douze.
Fatto a Bruxelles, il ventidue luglio millenovecentosettantadue.
Gedaan te Brussel, de tweeëntwintigste juli negentienhonderdtweeënzeventig.
Utferdiget i Brussel, tjueandre juli nitten hundre og syttito.
På Rådet for De europæiske Fællesskabers vegne
Im Namen des Rates der Europäischen Gemeinschaften
In the name of the Council of the European Communities
Au nom du Conseil des Communautés européennes
A nome del Consiglio delle Comunità europee
Namens de Raad van de Europese Gemeenschappen
For Rådet for De Europeiske Fellesskap
Für die Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft
Pour la Confédération suisse
Per la Confederazione svizzera

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1972/2840/attachment/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1972-2840/attachment-1
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