Meanings
- historicaluncountableCollectively, the twelve member states of the European Community (EC) from 1986 to 1992, after Portugal and Spain joined the organization.
In 1992, the estimated effects of liberalization on Hungarian and Polish exports to the EC12 were clearly larger than the predicted increases, while for the ex-Czechoslovakia they were rather close to predictions.
1996 June 29, Margarida Ponte Ferreira, The Effects of Economic Integration on Exports: Comparing Southern and Eastern Europe (Working Paper), number 554, Norwegian Institue of International Affairs, via National Library of Norway, →ISSN, page 341 more example
Figure 4 also shows that, although the EU25 broadly slowed down decision-making speed as compared with the EC12 and EC10, we find a significant difference from the EC15 only for those acts that were in the legislative process for around 200 days.
2011 June 29, Robin Hertz, Dirk Leuffen, “Too big to run? Analysing the impact of enlargement on the speed of EU decision-making”, in European Union Politics, volume 12, number 2, SAGE Publications, →DOI, →ISSN, page 209
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