Examples of using Horizontal guidelines in English and their translations into Finnish
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The new Horizontal Guidelines and Regulations can be found at.
Accordingly, the Commission is planning to expand its Horizontal Guidelines to also address SPCs for all sectors.
Furthermore, as outlined below the Commission plans to address both these forms of cooperation in its Horizontal Guidelines.
The discussion of these questions in the new horizontal guidelines would therefore constitute a good starting‑point for the assessment.
The revised texts are intended to replacethe expiring Regulations and the current version of the Horizontal Guidelines.
Providing guidance on information exchange in a new chapter of the Horizontal Guidelines(Option 2) will positively impact effective competition.
The Horizontal Guidelines will enter into force as soon as they have been published in the Official Journal of the EU, which should take place in the coming days.
Such agreements are appropriate, however,only when social partners agree that the horizontal guidelines are not suited to IWT practices.
The horizontal guidelines have, since 2000, provided for a positive assessment for this type of cooperation up to certain limits of market share.
These are currently under review and it is planned to publish a draft of the revised Horizontal Guidelines for stakeholder consultation in the first half of 2010.
The horizontal guidelines promote a standard-setting system that is transparent and that leads to predictable costs when licensing intellectual property rights.
Regarding information exchange, by providing guidance on information exchange in a new chapter of the Horizontal Guidelines, Option 2 will encourage pro-competitive information exchanges and discourage the harmful ones.
The horizontal guidelines cover not only specialisation and R& D agreements but also other types of agreements such as production, commercialisation and joint purchasing agreements.
Under Option 3, the insurance sector will benefit from guidance from two legal instruments, i.e. the Commission's Horizontal Guidelines(currently under review) and the Commission's Guidelines on the application of Article 1013.
Moreover, the Horizontal Guidelines are currently under review and it is planned to publish a draft of the revised Horizontal Guidelines for stakeholder consultation during the first half of 2010.
Although less legal certainty may be a result of Option 3,it is planned to expand the Commission's Horizontal Guidelines in order to address SPCs for all sectors which will provide additional guidance for insurers intending to enter into such cooperation.
The horizontal guidelines recognise that companies need to respond to increasing competitive pressure and a changing marketplace driven by globalisation, the pace of technological progress and the generally more dynamic nature of markets.
To take full advantage of the diversity of our instruments and funding mechanisms,we must make sure that we have a framework in which we can formulate the necessary horizontal guidelines and priorities in order to ensure effectiveness and consistency in what we do.
This is already the case,as Point 6 of the Horizontal Guidelines provides guidance on the compliance of technical standards with Article 101 of the Treaty.
Since a stricter approach towards information exchanges on future intentions is likely to save consumer welfare that would be lost in a process similar to that of a cartel,introducing a chapter on information exchange in the Horizontal Guidelines(Option 2) is likely to benefit consumers.
The Horizontal Guidelines provide an analytical framework for the assessment of the most common types of horizontal co-operation agreements such as research and development agreements, production agreements, purchasing agreement, commercialisation agreements and standardisation agreements.
Not requiring a disclosure of IPR in order to benefit from a safe-harbour butinstead provide an effects based guidance(in the standards chapter of the Horizontal Guidelines) explaining how this factor is taken into account when assessing a particular case(Option 3);
Guidance for the assessment of horizontal co-operation agreements under EU competition rules is currently given by three instruments, namely two'block exemption' Regulations(Commission Regulation(EC) No. 2659/2000 on research and development agreements(R& D BER) andCommission Regulation(EC) No. 2658/2000 on specialisation agreements(Specialisation BER)) and the accompanying guidelines on the applicability of Article 81 of the Treaty to horizontal cooperation agreements"Horizontal Guidelines.
The analytical framework set out in the Commission's Guidelines on the applicability of Article 81 of the EC Treaty to horizontal cooperation agreements4(the Horizontal Guidelines) will assist businesses in assessing the compatibility of agreements with Article 101 of the Treaty.5.
In the new BER, the Commission decided not to renew two of the four types of cooperation covered under the previous one, namely agreements concerning standard policy conditions and security devices,which are now addressed by the new Horizontal guidelines adopted in 2010.
These regulationsare complemented by guidelines on the applicability of Article 81 to horizontal cooperation agreements. The horizontal guidelines recognise that companies need to respond to increasing competitive pressureand a changing marketplace driven by globalisation, the pace of technological progress and the generallymore dynamic nature of markets.
As regards self-assessment under Article 101(3) of the Treaty for cooperation on SPCs and security devices,undertakings benefit from two legal instruments, namely the Horizontal Guidelines(currently being revised) and the Guidelines on the application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty15.
I voted in favour of this report as I believe that,given the significant legislative changes since the adoption of the regulations and horizontal guidelines, and the subsequent experience which the Commission has gained in the application of these rules, there is a need to codify a new set of rules issued by the Commission that takes account of European Court of Justice case-law in this area.
Equal Opportunities is a horizontal guideline incorporated in various other policies discussed in the NAP.
This phenomenon is discussed extensively in the guidelines on horizontal restraints.