Talk:Special territories of members of the European Economic Area

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British Overseas Territories

The map in the Info Box at the top of this page still incorrectly includes some of the British Overseas Territories. The Pitcairn Islands (Pacific Ocean), Turks & Caicos Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, Cayman Islands (Caribbean Sea) are still showing and need to be deleted.

Basel-Mulhouse

The airport Basel-Mulhouse is outside the VAT system, see [1]. --Glentamara (talk) 22:25, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

International airports in general have special rules regarding VAT and Schengen. We don't list them in this article. Basel-Mulhouse airport is a little special as it has a Swiss sector which follows Swiss VAT rules according to the document, and also has Swiss customs rules and Swiss passport control. If we want to we could list the airport under "Areas of extraterritoriality". Maybe add Geneva Airport which is located in Switzerland but has a French sector. Still they are airports which maybe are outside the scope because there are hundreds of international airports, although these two are a little special.--BIL (talk) 20:42, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Flags of territories

I think that in the Summary section the flag next to French Guiana should be France's flag, as it is its official flag (like for Réunion, for example). The yellow and green flag currently showed was the flag used by the "Département" between 2010 and 2015 and is no longer the official flag of the territory. What do people think about this proposed change? Westferrian (talk) 01:41, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Outback the koala (talk) 03:08, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Westferrian (talk) 23:08, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Campione d'Italia

As a general rule, all the EU territory of a member state whose currency is the euro belongs to the euro area. Non-EU territories of a euro country, such as Saint Barthélemy and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, may adopt the euro through special monetary agreements with the European Union. However, I'm wondering about Campione d'Italia, which is EU territory. This Wikipedia article currently claims that the only legal currency of Campione d'Italia is Swiss franc:

Moreover, the only legal tender in Campione d'Italia is the Swiss franc, ...

The references are, I would say, not that reliable. The first one does not even explicitly say that it is the legal tender, but rather that Swiss franc is the tender used in Campione d'Italia, which is another thing. The statement in this Wikipedia article may very well be fully true, but I'm wondering – formally speaking – what exactly is then the legal basis for this? Because I cannot find any legal act of the EU that exempts an EU part of a euro country from having the euro as its currency. Does anyone know if there is any formal exemption for Campione d'Italia? --Glentamara (talk) 09:45, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

According to the IT.Wikipedia article, Il comune è fortemente integrato dal punto di vista economico con la Svizzera: si utilizza sia l'euro sia il franco svizzero, which Professor Google translates as "The municipality is heavily integrated economically with Switzerland: both the euro and the Swiss franc are used". There is no reference in the article to legal tender (that I can find). Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence and in the absence of such, that sentence should be deleted as probable nonsense. I suspect that whoever wrote it is not aware of the subtleties. For example, it is not all widely known that Bank of Scotland sterling notes are not legal tender, even in Scotland – but they are ubiquitous there and generally accepted in the rest of the UK. I will correct the article. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:55, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --Glentamara (talk) 13:11, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]