{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-177/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-177/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/177",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-177",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:\n(a) ‘legal unit’, ‘enterprise’, ‘local unit’ and ‘enterprise group’ shall be as defined in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 696/93;\n(b) ‘national authorities’ shall be as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 322/97;\n(c) ‘statistical purposes’ shall be as described in Article 2(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1588/90;\n(d) ‘multinational enterprise group’ shall mean an enterprise group which has at least two enterprises or legal units located in different countries;\n(e) ‘truncated enterprise group’ shall mean the enterprises and the legal units of a multinational enterprise group, which are resident in the same country. It may comprise only one unit, if the other units are non-resident. An enterprise may be the truncated enterprise group or part thereof.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/177/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:52:24.744589+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}