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Defining a European Vehicle: Community Standards as Integration Tools or Trade Barriers for European Enterprises?

In: The European Enterprise

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  • Marine Moguen-Toursel

    (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

Abstract

This paper is intended to examine the progressive and chaotic emergence of European specifications for vehicles since the 1960s. How did European institutions select, in connection with economic partners such as carmakers, the criteria for defining European products? How did they implement a decision-making process to adopt Community standards for these products? In what sense did negotiations on a gradual opening of the European market for Japanese imports imply a renewed approach to the definition of a European vehicle? Additionally, a question underlies the whole paper: are Community vehicles specific products that stand apart from national and global ones? This is connected to the question of pre-existing models: predominant national models inside the European Communities, and strong models outside, whether international or American ones.

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  • Marine Moguen-Toursel, 2008. "Defining a European Vehicle: Community Standards as Integration Tools or Trade Barriers for European Enterprises?," Springer Books, in: Harm G. Schröter (ed.), The European Enterprise, pages 67-80, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-74038-4_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74038-4_5
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