Gibraltar And The European Community

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Gibraltar entered the EC at the time of the accession of the United Kingdom. It is among the European territories for whose external relations a Member State is responsible under Article 227(4) of the EC Treaty. Article 28 of the Act concerning the Conditions of Accession and the Adjustments to the Treaties (which concerns the accession of the UK, Denmark and Ireland) provides that there shall be certain exceptions from Community measures with respect to Gibraltar (the CAP, VAT and CCT do not apply). Subject to these explicit exceptions, all legislation adopted by the Community since 1973 has been applicable to Gibraltar.

All the Treaty provisions on the free movement of capital, services and persons apply fully to Gibraltar. The fourth 'freedom' on movement of goods is restricted by Gibraltar's position outside the Customs Territory, although in effect this is largely mitigated by the application of the Generalised System of Preferences to Gibraltar.