In its evaluation of Directive 2009/38/EC of 15 May 2018, the Commission confirmed the added value and relevance in principle of that Directive. It found that many of the Directive’s provisions are sufficiently flexible to accommodate evolving technological and economic realities and a variety of forms of undertaking or group. For example, it applies to all Community-scale groups of undertakings, regardless of the type of legal arrangements that allow the exercise of the dominant influence between the controlling and the controlled undertakings forming such groups. Consequently, undertakings linked, for instance, by franchise or license agreements can fall under the definition of Community-scale group of undertakings, provided that dominant influence is established.
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