The EEA Enlargement Agreement ("amending Agreement") lists the amendments to be made to the existing EEA Agreement to take account of the participation of ten new Parties to the EEA. The Protocols and Annexes to the EEA Agreement have been amended to take account of the adaptations made to the Community acquis by the Treaty of Accession.
However, instead of having all the adaptations to the acquis that are contained in the EU Act of Accession spelled out in the Annexes to the EEA Agreement, a so-called “reference technique” has been used in conjunction with one general Article in the amending Agreement. This general Article (see Article 3) states, on the one hand, that all the amendments made to Community acquis through the EU Act of Accession - that is covered by the EEA Agreement - are hereby “incorporated into and made part” of the EEA Agreement. Annex A to the amending Agreement, on the other hand, lists all the acts referred to in the Annexes of the EEA Agreement that have been amended by the EU Act of Accession and where these acts are to be found in the EEA Agreement. The objective of this reference technique is to make the exercise of enlargement as simple and straightforward as possible. In a second step, an informal consolidation of the EEA Agreement including the Annexes and Protocols, will be carried out by the Secretariat at a later stage.
Annex B of the main Agreement contains the accession countries’ transitional arrangements for implementing the Internal Market acquis.
There are numerous references in the Instrument to the Treaty of Accession 2003 which you can access here.
The EEA Enlargement Agreement 2004
Bilateral Agreements and Additional Protocols related to EEA enlargement 2004