In­sti­tu­tional Agree­ment for Swiss-EU Re­la­tions

In the com­ing months, the re­la­tion­ship be­tween Switzer­land and the EU faces a crit­i­cal junc­ture: The de­ci­sion for or against the pro­posal of an in­sti­tu­tional agree­ment will de­ter­mine the fu­ture of the bi­lat­eral path – and ul­ti­mately the com­pet­i­tive­ness of the Swiss econ­omy in Eu­rope. 140 bi­lat­eral agree­ments cur­rently gov­ern the Swiss-EU re­la­tions. They give Swiss com­pa­nies pref­er­en­tial ac­cess to the Eu­ro­pean in­ter­nal mar­ket. The pro­posed in­sti­tu­tional agree­ment ap­plies to five ex­ist­ing mar­ket ac­cess agree­ments – the core of the bi­lat­eral agree­ments.

economiesu­isse, in prin­ci­ple, sup­ports the con­clu­sion of an in­sti­tu­tional agree­ment with the EU based on the ex­ist­ing draft text. How­ever, economiesu­isse also re­quests cer­tain clar­i­fi­ca­tions by the Fed­eral Coun­cil prior to a final de­ci­sion. The fol­low­ing fact sheet pro­vides an overview on the as­sess­ment and po­si­tion of economiesu­isse vis-à-vis the in­sti­tu­tional agree­ment, ad­dresses the most im­por­tant sub­jects that re­quire fur­ther clar­i­fi­ca­tion and re­quests a roadmap for im­proved co­op­er­a­tion be­tween Switzer­land and the EU.

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