# 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, Article 2: Definitions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
(a) ‘legal unit’, ‘enterprise’, ‘local unit’ and ‘enterprise group’ shall be as defined in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 696/93;
(b) ‘national authorities’ shall be as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 322/97;
(c) ‘statistical purposes’ shall be as described in Article 2(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1588/90;
(d) ‘multinational enterprise group’ shall mean an enterprise group which has at least two enterprises or legal units located in different countries;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/177/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-177/article-2
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