In yesterday‘s post we talked about the track record of the Efta Surveillance Authority against the Republic of Iceland in the EFTA Court. Here‘s a short comparison of how the other EFTA governments are doing using the same comparison.
One note must be made. Court cases are not resolved with respect to statistics from other cases, they are resolved based on merits of the particular case. The EFTA Surveillance Authority would not be doing its job if the majority of its cases against the EFTA states would be thrown out. These statistics do of course provide some indications that the Icelandic government should be mild in its optimism, when it comes down to the upcoming IceSave court case. But this does of course not mean that the case is decided already. Even though many procecutors have decent conviction rates, it does not mean that someone who has just been accused of a crime is definitely guilty. Here‘s a breakdown of the Norwegian and Liechtensteinian cases before the EFTA Court: Norway:
- Case E-18/10 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway ESA WINS
- Case E-10/10 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway ESA WINS
- Case E-6/08 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway ESA WINS
- Case E-2/07 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway ESA WINS
- Case E-2/06 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway ESA WINS
- Case E-1/06 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway NORWAY WINS
- Case E-3/05 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway NORWAY WINS
- Case E-1/05 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway ESA WINS
- Joined Cases E-5/04, E-6/04, and E-7/04 – Fesil ASA and Finnfjord Smelteverk AS (E-5/04), Prosessindustriens Landsforening and others (E-6/04) ESA WINS
- Case E-4/03 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v Norway ESA WINS
- Case E-1/02 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway ESA WINS
- Case E-9/00 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway ESA WINS
- Case E-3/00 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway ESA WINS
- Case E-2/99 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway ESA WINS
- Case E-6/98 – The Kingdom of Norway v EFTA Surveillance Authority
- ESA WINS
- Case E-10/97 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway ESA WINS
- Case E-7/97 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Kingdom of Norway ESA WINS
Liechtenstein
- Case E-11/10 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Principality of Liechtenstein ESA WINS
- Case E-9/10 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Principality of Liechtenstein ESA WINS
- Joined cases E-4/6/7-10 – The Principality of Liechtenstein, REASSUR Aktiengesellschaft and Swisscom RE Aktiengesellschaft v E ESA WINS
- Case E-1/09 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Principality of Liechtenstein ESA WINS ON MOST ACCOUNTS
- Case E-6/06 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Principality of Liechtenstein ESA WINS
- Case E-5/06 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Principality of Liechtenstein ESA WINS
- Joined Cases E-5/05, E-6/05, E-7/05, E-8/05, and E-9/05 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Principality of Liechtenstein ESA WINS
- Case E-8/04 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v Liechtenstein ESA WINS
- Case E-5/01 – EFTA Surveillance Authority v The Principality of Liechtenstein ESA WINS
Note that these are only the cases between ESA and the particular member states. ESA itself has been brought to the EFTA Court a couple of times by third parties. Those cases are not listed here.