CENTENOL Activities

WP1 

H.H. Fredriksen & C.N.K. Franklin, “The NAV Case in the EFTA Court and the Supreme Court of Norway”, in EFTA Court (ed.) The EFTA Court – Developing the EEA over Three Decades (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2024), 267-286. 

H.H. Fredriksen, “Et NAV-ombud etter svensk modell?”, 64 (2025) 1 Lov og Rett, side 3-5 (https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/lor.64.1.1)  

WP2 

C.N.K. Franklin (with F.O. Helle & H. Bull), «Særlige regler for utlendinger som omfattes av EØS-avtalen og EFTA-konvensjonen», in T. Einarsen & K.M. Larsen (eds.), Utlendingsloven – kommentarutgave (Universitetsforlaget, 2023), 686-764 

C.N.K. Franklin, «EU-borgerskap og EØS», Special Report, NOU 2024: 7 Norge og EØS: Utvikling og erfaringer (EØS-utredningen 2022-24) 

Lenke: https://www.regjeringen.no/contentassets/15ef86ab491f4856b8d431f5fa32de98/no/sved/ekstern2.pdf 

WP3 

M.R. Hack, «Tariffavtaler som gjør unntak fra likelønn for vikarbyråarbeidere til prøve i EU-domstolen», 63 (2024) 3 Lov & Rett, 181-197. 

WP4 

I.M.H. Barlund, “Binding rules through the backdoor? - Soft law in the financial supervisory field adding the Norwegian perspective”, Scandinavian Studies in Law (forthcoming, 2024) 

H.H. Fredriksen, “The geographical reach of EEA law after Scanteam” in Afmælisrit Pall Hreinsson (Fons Juris, 2023), 263-280 

H.H. Fredriksen, «EU-retten i norsk rett: har vi grep om den nå?» 63 (2024) 1 Lov og Rett, 3-5 

C.N.K. Franklin, “Diffusion and Differentiation of EU Norms in the EEA”, in D. Fromage (ed.), Redefining EU Membership – Differentiation In and Outside the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2024), 210-227 

H.H. Fredriksen (member of Law Commission), NOU 2024: 7 Norge og EØS: Utvikling og erfaringer (EØS-utredningen 2022-24)  

H.H. Fredriksen, Anmeldelse av Páll Hreinsson, Ólafur Jóhannes Einarsson og Bryndis Pálmarsdóttir (red.), The EFTA Court – Developing the EEA over Three Decades, Hart Publishing 2024, 63 (2024) 10 Lov og Rett 707-712 

Publications Related to Educational Activites  

H.H. Fredriksen, EU-/EØS-rett, EMK og annen internasjonal rett på jusstudiet i Bergen – en gjennomgang av læringskrav og pensumlitteratur etter studieordningen av 2021 (2024)  

Lenke: https://www.uib.no/centenol/171437/rapport-om-internasjonal-rett-p%C3%A5-jusstudiet-i-bergen

Editorials, commentary etc.  

H.H. Fredriksen, «Forviklinger ved norske oversettelser av EU-regelverk – illustrert med anskaffelsesdirektivet», Rett24.no, 2023 

H.H. Fredriksen, «Trygdekoordinering med Storbritannia etter Brexit – ny konvensjon, men fremdeles komplisert», Rett24.no, 2023 

H.H. Fredriksen, “To refer or not to refer – Norwegian courts’ engagement with the EFTA Court 2019-2023”, EFTA-studies.org, 12 March 2024 

C.N.K. Franklin, I.M.H. Barlund & H.H. Fredriksen, “Transparency and efficiency in Advisory Opinion Cases before the EFTA Court”, EFTA-studies.org, 19 March 2024  

C.K.K. Franklin, «Supplerende anvendelse av hovedreglene om fri bevegelighet i EU- og EØS-retten», National Office for Health Service Appeals seminar, Bergen, 21 March 2024 

T. Otterdal Heggen & M. Tvermyr Holmen, “No principle of State liability for breaches of EEA law attributable to the judiciary? Some reflections on the seventh round of the Dartride saga”, EFTA-studies.org, 23 March 2024 

M.R. Hack, Interview by Klassekampen on temporary agency work, 21 June 2024 

H.H. Fredriksen, “The 2024 Norwegian EEA Review: Norway as an ever deeper integrated outsider”, EFTA-studies.org, 25 June 2024 

H.H. Fredriksen og T.O. Heggen, “EFTA-domstolen som prejudikatdomstol”, Rett24.no (15.1.2025) 

HH. Fredriksen og T.O. Heggen, “Likhet for loven og rettskildevekten av EFTA-domstolens praksis”, Rett24.no (27.1.2025)

CENTENOL’s members contribute to educational activities at the University of Bergen through a broad range of courses, conferences and seminars.

On the 5-year Master’s program, they are involved in teaching on several mandatory courses, providing insights into how EEA law impacts on Norwegian law.

They are also highly involved in teaching on all of the courses taught on the the specialized LLM-programme in EU and EEA law.

H.H. Fredriksen (2025), The Relationship between the EU and the EFTA States of the European Economic Area in the Face of Common Crises, Centenol Working Paper 1/2025 

M.R. Hack (2024), «Forholdsmessighet som ‘lakmustest’ for sektorspesifikke innleieforbud» (forthcoming, 2025)  

J. Ablevik (2024) - "Retten opphører når misbruket begynner" 

L. Zijdeman (2024) - "Harmoniserende effekter i EUs koordinerende trygdeforordning" 

H. T. Matias (2024) - "Betydningen av EU-retten ved tolkningen av domstolsbegrepet i ODA artikkel 34" 

M. Øverland (2024)- “Ansvarssubjekter etter det EØS-rettslige erstatningsansvaret. I hvilke tilfeller kan norske kommuner holdes erstatningsrettslig ansvarlig for EØS-stridige vedtak?” 

Webinar 1

Book launch 3 May 2024

The book “EØS-lovgivningen. Fra EU-rett til EØS-rett til norsk rett,” written by Torje Sunde, Jon Lunde, and Ida Sørebø, fills a gap in Norwegian EØS legal literature, particularly aimed at Norwegian administration. The book describes in detail the steps a legal act goes through from the EU until it becomes part of Norwegian law through the EØS agreement. This also includes an introduction to the legal nature and structure of the EØS agreement, as well as the types of safeguards that exist when these legal act procedures do not succeed.

For more infomration about the event please see the Norwegian web page: Velkommen til bokslepp i Bergen! | Det juridiske fakultet | UiB

Webinar 2

Conversation about the EEA Review Committee’s report 27 September

In May 2022, 30 years after the signing of the EEA Agreement in Porto in 1992, the Norwegian government appointed an independent committee to review Norway’s experience as a member of the European Economic Area in the 10 years that had then lapsed since the previous such undertaking – the 2012 report of the Norwegian EEA Review Committee of 2010-2012. In the spring of 2024, as the EEA Agreement celebrates its 30th year in force, the EEA Review Committee of 2022-2024 handed its report over to the government.

For more information about the event please see the event page: A critical conversation about the EEA Review Committee’s report | Research Group for European Law | UiB

Webinar 3

A conversation on the future of the single market 

2024 has been a year of several seminal reports from the EU. The Letta report on the future of the single market was published in the spring, followed in the autumn by the Draghi report on the future of European competitiveness. Both reports address how the EU can tackle the numerous challenges which the Union now faces. In this conversation, Professor Catherine Barnard from the University of Cambridge, and Deputy Director Mona Næss from the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, highlight key findings of the Letta and Draghi reports, and offer their own thoughts on addressing the challenges ahead.

For more information about the event, please see the event page: https://www.uib.no/en/centenol/173959/hybrid-seminar-future-single-market

C.N.K. Franklin, “EU-Nordic Relations” (paper discussant), Nordic Association for European Studies, Inaugural Research Conference at University of South-Eastern Norway, Drammen, 1-2 November 2023 

C.N.K. Franklin, “CENTENOL – Projects and Work Packages”, seminar for representatives of the University of Aberdeen, University of Bergen Rectorate, 10 November 2023 

C.N.K. Franklin, “Free movement in the Nordic States – Plugging EU Citizenship Gaps in an EEA Context”, The EU as a Transformative Legal and Economic Order – Conference in the memory of Professor Ulf Bernitz, Swedish Network of European Legal Studies, Stockholm, 16-17 November 2023 

C.N.K. Franklin, “The Unemployment Benefit Cases – Supplementary Assessments”, EFTA Court seminar, Luxembourg, 30 November 2023   

M.R. Hack, «Samspill mellom EU-/EØS-rett og norsk arbeidsrett – utvalgte eksempler», Seminar on EEA law, Norwegian Law Society & Norwegian Maritime Authority, Haugesund, 11 January 2024  

C.N.K. Franklin, «EØS-rettslig metode: Forholdet mellom primær- og sekundærretten», Seminar on EEA law, Norwegian Law Society & Norwegian Maritime Authority, Haugesund, 11 January 2024 

I.M.H. Barlund & H.H. Fredriksen, «Erfaringar med tilpasningstekstar og EØS-regelverk i praksis” , Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security (digital seminar), 24 February 2024 

H.H. Fredriksen, «Retningslinjer, anbefalinger og lignende ikke-bindende EØS-rettslige instrumenter», Norwegian Association for European Law, Oslo, 13 March 2024 

H.H. Fredriksen (with CENTENOL-partner Anne Elizabeth Stie), «30 år med EØS - status for Norges tilknytning til EU», Christie Conference 2024, Bergen, 23 April 2024  

C.N.K. Franklin, “Om CENTENOL – prosjekter og problemstillinger”, EEA seminar, Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion, Oslo, 7 May 2024 

C.N.K. Franklin, «Hvordan påvirkes vi av det som bestemmes i Brussel, hvor mye bestemmer egentlig EU over oss?», Trainee seminar, Bergen Chamber of Commerce, 8 May 2024 

I.M.H. Barlund, “EEA law in the current curriculum at the University of Bergen”, Annual EEA Forum Day hosted by EURNOR, University of Oslo, 22 May 2024  

H.H. Fredriksen, “The Directive Beyond EU Citizenship: the case of the European Economic Area, 20 Years of Directive 2004/38/EC”, Workshop, Edinburgh Law School, 6-7 June 2024 

H.H. Fredriksen, «Folketrygdloven sett i et EØS-perspektiv», Seminar, Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion, Oslo, 26 August 2025 

H.H. Fredriksen and G.T. Petursson, “30 years of the EFTA Court - 10 cases that shaped EEA law”, Conference: The EFTA Court at 30, Luxembourg 26 September 2024  

C.N.K. Franklin, “Comprehensive sickness insurance as a condition for right of residence for more than three months”, Conference on EEA Social Security Law, Sandefjord, 22-23 October 2024  

H.H. Fredriksen, “Ytelser til enslig forsørger som en EØS-rettslig familieytelse”, Conference on EEA Social Security Law, Sandefjord, 22-23 October 2024 

H.H. Fredriksen, “Rådgivende uttalelser fra EFTA-domstolen", Ryssdalseminaret 2024 (UiO), Oslo, 4 November 2024 

I.M.H. Barlund & H.H. Fredriksen, “Suverenitet og handlingsrom - frå eit rettsleg perspektiv” (UiA), Kristiansand 27 November 2024 

M. R. Hack, “Rettskomparative betraktninger – sektorspesifikke innleieforbud i tysk rett”, Pål Berg Seminaret, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, 22 January 2025 

LaW-BALANCE - Life and Work in Balance: Legal responses to working life in times of change and crisis.

LaW-BALANCE aims to provide a better understanding of the legal framework of working life in transition and develop knowledge on how law can function as an instrument to achieve an inclusive working life and a well-functioning welfare state.

LaW-BALANCE is a four-year project on the legal framework of working life in transition and on the concept of ‘work-life balance’. The project is funded by The Research Council of Norway. 

Read more on the project's website.

International Social Security Law

The background for the project is the so-called "welfare scandal", where the residence requirements of the National Insurance Act were misapplied concerning travel within the EEA area. The case brought significant attention to the relationship between EEA law and Norwegian social security legislation. The project aims to build critical academic communities at the intersection of EEA law and national social security law through research, teaching, and dissemination.

The project is a collaboration between the three law faculties at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, and UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs contributes funding for the project.

Read more on the project's website.