Resumen de Advisory Opinions in the EEA: The Icelandic Supreme Court and the EFTA Court

Ólafur Ísberg Hannesson

• The present article seeks to define how the Icelandic Supreme Court has applied the facility provided by art.34 SCA for obtaining advisory opinions from the EFTA Court on questions of EEA law. In order to define the approach of the Supreme Court to EEA law in different legal areas, and thereby find a possible qualitative explanation for the number of references from the Icelandic courts, the criteria which form the basis of the assessment of the Supreme Court in the decision on whether to refer will be analysed. Given the context of the article, the outcome of this analysis forms part of the answer to the more general question of how and when the Supreme Court applies EEA law.