France too has experienced in more recent times the secession of the two islands of Saint Martin and Saint Bartelemy, from Guadaloupe, which has Departmental status in France; and they have become instead Overseas Collectives of France, but at the same time
Outermost Regions of the EU (OMRs).
Sarhangi created a Persian tiling pattern for the innermost and
outermost regions between the decagrams, using only shapes that could be created with a straightedge and compass.
Mayotte, which will officially join the EU as an «
outermost region» in January 2014,...
At the time, it was an inert chunk of ice, dust and frozen gases, floating nearly motionless in
the outermost region of the solar system, a thousand times more distant than Pluto.
Primordial follicles, the sacs that house immature eggs, reside in
the outermost region of the ovary.
In fact, the very stability of the ecosystem in the entire Amazon region is altered when deforestation takes place in
the outermost regions.
The outer membrane, being
the outermost region that has direct contact with the organism's environment, functions as a protective barrier.
«The fact that
the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere is at millions of degrees while the temperature of the underlying photosphere is only 6,000 kelvins (degrees C. above absolute zero) is quite nonintuitive.
The images of Andromeda that they were searching through did not cover
the outermost regions of the galaxy.
Subjects would indicate to researchers when they were planning the movement, so the researchers could see what part of the cerebral cortex —
the outermost region of the brain, which plays a key role in functions from movement to attention to learning — responded if a button - push was or was not executed.
The Sun's atmosphere is made up of a number of layers including the photosphere, which is the equivalent of the Sun's surface, and the corona,
the outermost region where flares take place.
The object, referred to as SDSS J0104 +1535, is located in
the outermost regions of our Galaxy, which is comprised of the oldest stars.
Beyond the cities were the close - in suburbs, where older people and white blue - collar workers made their homes; farther out, the middle - class baby boomers were raising their kids; and in
the outermost region, farmers were rapidly selling their land for development.
, EU Law of the Overseas:
Outermost Regions, Associated Overseas; Countries and Territories, Territories Sui Generis, Alphen a / d Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 2011, p. 245 - 269.
It may be that Scotland would not relish the status of
Outermost Region, but it would keep it in the EU.
It is well established case - law of the ECJ that
the Outermost Regions constitute an integral part of the internal market (cf. Case 148/77 Hansen, par.
Since the decentralized enforcement of EU - Competition law, especially the French competition authority, l'Autorité de la concurrence, is confronted with that question, because the French republic incorporates both categories:
Outermost Regions and OCTs.
This is in my view not only the logic of Art. 355 TFEU, but also of the concept that
Outermost Regions are part on the internal market in which undistorted competition must be guaranteed by EU - Competition law.
La Réunion is
an Outermost Region and Mayotte an OCT..
What this case in my view demonstrates is that even though EU - Competition law formally applies in
the Outermost Regions, it is questionable whether anti-competitive behaviour by undertakings on the Outermost Regions can affect inter-state trade, because the Outermost Regions are remote and isolated islands.
According to the French competition authority and the European Commission EU - Competition law is thus applicable on
the Outermost Regions and not on the OCTs.
Even though formally EU - Competition law applies to
the Outermost Regions, it is very questionable whether inter-state trade can be affected by undertakings on the Outermost Regions since the the overseas regions are suffering from remoteness and insular isolation.