Levels of EU Law – Infographic

This infographic designed by Jennifer Cook provides an overview of the EU’s legal presence in the Arctic and its related competences. As a complex international actor, the EU has acquired a broad array of decision-making powers from its Member States, powers that partly also extend to Iceland and (mainland) Norway via the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement. The EU’s legal influence is undoubtedly strongest and clearest in its Arctic Member States (Finland and Sweden) and its EEA partners, but also fairly extensively in both the broader European and Circumpolar Arctic.