| Some territories of EFTA member states also have a special status in regard to EU laws applied as is the case with some European microstates. |
| The EEA and Norway Grants are administered by the Financial Mechanism Office, which is affiliated to the EFTA Secretariat in Brussels. |
| Since each EFTA and EU country can make its own citizenship laws, dual citizenship is not always possible. |
| The following table summarises the various components of EU laws applied in the EFTA countries and their sovereign territories. |
| After the accession of Denmark, Ireland, and the UK to the EEC in January 1973, the EFTA began to falter. |
| Austria, Sweden, and Finland joined the EU in 1995 and thus ceased to be EFTA members. |
