78It should be noted at the outset that the EC-Switzerland Air Transport Agreement, which forms part of a series of seven sectoral agreements between the same contracting parties, was signed on 21 June 1999 after the rejection by the Swiss Confederation, on 6 December 1992, of the Agreement on the European Economic Area of 2 May 1992 (OJ 1994 L 1, p. 3) and that, by its refusal, the Swiss Confederation did not subscribe to the project of an economically integrated entity with a single market, based on common rules between its members, but chose the route of bilateral arrangements between the European Union and its Member States in specific areas (see, to that effect, Case C-351/08Grimme [2009] ECR I-10777, paragraphs 26 and 27, and Case C-541/08Fokus Invest [2010] ECR I-1025, paragraph 27).