It does allow border staff to forgo checks on EEA passengers against the Warnings Index.
Mr Morris said the latest figures outlined in the EEA report were "fairly unimpressive".
The Commission said the proposed deal would not cause competition concerns in European Economic Area (EEA) markets.
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For non-EEA passengers, the target of clearing 95% within 45 minutes was met on 11 of those 15 days.
The EFTA Surveillance Authority, a body that polices the EEA agreements in Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein, has already started legal proceedings against Iceland.
Ministers promised to look into the issue of applications from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) following a key report by Sir John Tooke.
Norway signed up to a plethora of other EU agreements beyond the EEA, covering borders, immigration, foreign policy, agriculture, police co-operation and much else.
The EEA report identified a range of factors that contributed to the reduction during 2008, including less demand for power as economic activity slowed.
But the report also says the EEA has ensured "a stable and relatively predictable framework" for relations with the EU, its most important economic partner.
However, once qualified, they can continue to receive it if, in future years, they move abroad to another European Economic Area (EEA) country or Switzerland.
In particular, the Commission points to the continued taxation of the UK profits of subsidiaries established in the EU or in member states of the European Economic Area (EEA).
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Around 13, 500 of these were from beyond the EEA. Around 10, 000 were on the UK's highly skilled migrant programme, and many of the others were paying to attend medical school here.
The EEA report warns that, given the increase in both goods and people moving around the globe, the "number and impact of harmful IAS in Europe may grow significantly in the future".
Crucially though, the guidance does not permit the relaxation of fingerprint checks - indeed, they were not introduced until long after it was written - and does not allow any reduction in checks for non-EEA nationals.
The EEA suggests that the best way to tackle the threats posed by invasive species was through a "combination of preventative measures, early detection and rapid response to incursions, with permanent management only as the last option".
As well as inter-bank fees paid by cardholders from non-EEA countries, the Commission said the probe would look at rules that obliged merchants to accept all types of Mastercard cards, even if some of them incur higher charges.
The investigation will examine payments made by people from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) - the EU's 27-member states as well as Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland - who use their credit and debit cards when inside the area.
Payments will be made to British, EU and EEA victims resident in the UK for at least three years prior to the attacks who "continue to have an ongoing disability as a direct result of the injuries they sustained", he added.
Partly as a result of the Iceland fiasco, the British government has written to the European Commission seeking urgent consideration of improvements to legislation of cross-border banking in the EEA, including better ways of protecting depositors in branches of foreign banks.
Moreover, the Commission considers that, despite having taken corrective measures, the UK is still not fulfilling the stipulations of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU and of the EEA Agreement on the freedom of establishment and free movement of capital.
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You get to move your company around to any of the EU or EEA countries (and absolutely no one at all is allowed to stop you in any manner at all) and this puts pressure on each country to keep the corporation tax rate low.
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"By the late 21st century, European plant species are projected to shift several hundred kilometers to the north, forests are likely to contract in the south and expand in the north, and about half of the mountain plant species may face extinction, " the EEA says.
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