Translation of "Bestimmenden einfluss" in English

Established lobbying interests and cronyism predominate in influencing the decision-making process.

At the same time transport plays a fundamental role in determining the quality of our environment.

There is a presumption that a parent company exercises decisive influence over its wholly owned subsidiary.

So that Hoffmann exerted a decisive lasting influence on the development of applied art.

The Commission considers that in this situation KLM and Nedlloyd can exercise ‘decisive influence’ within the meaning of Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (the Merger Regulation) over Martinair.

The most important thing, though, is that, apart from shares in reservation systems, airlines do not have the opportunity to exert such an influence on the functioning of systems as might give preferential treatment to the routes they operate, and this must be properly reflected in the definition of 'parent carrier'.

He settled in Memel, East Prussia where he met Rabbi Isaac Rülf, who accepted him as a student.

He received his education at the University of Göttingen as a student of Hermann Sauppe and Ernst Curtius, followed by studies in Bonn, where his instructors included Friedrich Ritschl and Otto Jahn.

The Commission considers that in this situation KLM and Nedlloyd can exercise "decisive influence" within the meaning of Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (the Merger Regulation) over Martinair.

The law on the National Council for the Judiciary increases the concerns regarding the overall independence of the judiciary by providing the premature termination of the mandate of all judges-members of the National Council for the Judiciary, and by establishing an entirely new regime for the appointment of its judges-members which allows a high degree of political influence.

Nevertheless, they will play a role in determining to which extent the Small Claims procedure will be used in court practice.

In those circumstances, it is sufficient for the Commission to show that the entire capital of a subsidiary is held by the parent company in order to presume that the parent company exercises decisive influence over the subsidiary’s commercial policy.

At the same time, organisations upon which commercial undertakings have a decisive influence allowing them to exercise control because of structural situations such as their quality of shareholders or members, which may result in preferential access to the results of the research, should not be considered research organisations for the purposes of this Directive.

In line with established case law, if the parent company within a group exercises decisive influence over commercial behaviour of its subsidiaries, then both form part of the same economic undertaking.

In the particular case in which a parent company holds all or almost all of the capital in a subsidiary which has committed an infringement of the EU competition rules, there is a rebuttable presumption that that parent company exercises an actual decisive influence over its subsidiary.

According to settled case-law, in the specific case of a parent company holding 100% of the capital of a subsidiary which has committed an infringement of the competition rules, there is a rebuttable presumption that that parent company actually exercises decisive influence over the conduct of its subsidiary.

Legal responsibility for the infringement and the related fine can be imputed to both the subsidiary that actually participated in the cartel and the parent company or companies that exercised decisive influence over the commercial behaviour of that subsidiary at the relevant time."

Control shall be constituted by rights, contracts or any other means, which either separately or in combination and having regard to the considerations of fact or law involved, confer the possibility of exercising decisive influence on the supplier as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union.

There has been no contention, moreover, that the State attempted to exercise decisive influence over the activities of the inter-trade organisations or, in particular, that the public authorities were in any way involved in the adoption of measures taken by those organisations.

The Court refers, first, to its settled case?law that where the entire capital of a subsidiary is held by its parent company, the Commission may presume that the parent company actually exercises decisive influence over the commercial policy of its subsidiary.

It observes that a concentration takes place either when two or more independent undertakings merge to form a new undertaking, or through the acquisition of control of another undertaking, the concept of control covering the possibility of exercising decisive influence over the activity of an undertaking.

In its judgments in those appeals delivered today, the Court of Justice notes, first of all, that when a parent company has a 100% shareholding in a subsidiary which has infringed the competition rules, there is a simple presumption that the parent company does in fact exercise a decisive influence over the conduct of its subsidiary.

Since the thin capitalisation rules apply only to situations in which the lending company has a definite influence over the borrowing company or is itself controlled by a company which has such an influence, those rules should be examined only in the light of freedom of establishment.