Enabling regulation

Legislative act by which the Council empowers the Commission to adopt secondary Community legislation (in the form of regulations or directives) such as, for example, block exemption regulations or implementing regulations. Source: Glossary of terms used in EU...

Effects doctrine

According to this doctrine, domestic competition laws are applicable to foreign firms — but also to domestic firms located outside the State’s territory, when their behaviour or transactions produce an ‘effect’ within the domestic territory. The ‘nationality’ of firms...

Effect on trade between Member States

A necessary condition for the application of EU antitrust rules. Articles 101 and 102 of the EC Treaty are only applicable if there may be a direct or indirect, actual or potential influence on the flow or pattern of trade between at least two Member States of the EU....

EEA

EEA stands for European Economic Area. The EEA agreement, to which all EU Member States and the EFTA members Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway are parties, entered into force on 1 January 1994. The objective of the agreement is to establish a dynamic and homogeneous...

Economies of scope

Economies of scope occur when firms achieve cost savings by increas- ing the variety of goods and services that they produce (joint produc- tion). Such effects arise when it is possible to share components and to use the same facilities and personnel to produce...