<P> Bermuda did not--despite having OCT status as defined by the Rome Treaty--join the EU - OCT Association (OCTA) together with the other overseas territories in November 2001, but instead only joined OCTA on 2 July 2014 . As of July 2014, it is only the three remote areas without any permanent population (British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands), that are not members of OCTA . All citizens of the British overseas territories, except those residing at Britain's sovereign bases in Cyprus, were granted full British citizenship by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002, and are consequently citizens of the European Union . </P> <P> While the outermost regions and the overseas countries and territories fall into structured categories to which common mechanisms apply, this is not true of all the special territories . Some territories have ad hoc arrangements in their relationship with the EU . Some of these could be called "protocol territories" as their status is governed by protocols attached to their respective countries' accession treaties . The rest owe their status to European Union legislative provisions which exclude the territories from the application of the legislation concerned . Many were opted out from either the VAT area or the customs union or both . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Areas that are part of the EU </Th> <Th> Areas that are not part of the EU </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Åland Islands </Li> <Li> Büsingen am Hochrhein </Li> <Li> Campione d'Italia and Livigno </Li> <Li> Ceuta and Melilla </Li> <Li> UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus </Li> <Li> Gibraltar </Li> <Li> Helgoland </Li> <Li> Mount Athos </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Akrotiri and Dhekelia </Li> <Li> Faroe Islands </Li> <Li> Channel Islands (Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey) </Li> <Li> Isle of Man </Li> <Li> Northern Cyprus </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Areas that are part of the EU </Th> <Th> Areas that are not part of the EU </Th> </Tr>

Are the channel islands part of the eu