The EFTA Parliamentary Committee is a forum for parliamentarians from the EFTA member states Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The Committee addresses issues concerning EFTA in general as well as its relations with third countries and is the EFTA Ministerial Council’s advisory body.
At the Ministerial Conference in Malbun, Liechtenstein, the Parliamentary Committee will hold a joint meeting with the members of the EFTA Council of Ministers and the Consultative Committee (social partners) to discuss the topic of trade and sustainable development and exchange views on EFTA’s revised model chapter on this topic. There will also be a discussion on EFTA’s strategic orientation in the light of current trade policy challenges. In particular, the Parliamentary Committee will discuss EFTA’s cooperation with the European Union and the United Kingdom’s planned withdrawal from the European Union and its consequences for EFTA.
The representatives of the Swiss EFTA/EU delegation to the EFTA Parliamentary Committee who will be attending the meeting in Malbun are its vice president Eric Nussbaumer (National Council, SP/BL), Hans Egloff (National Council, SVP/ZH) and Konrad Graber (Council of States, CVP/LU).