(b) ` Law enforcement` shall refer to all activity aimed at preventing and combating crime.

The European University Institute (hereinafter called the "Institute") shall enjoy immunity from enforcement in the exercise of its official activities, except:

The document describes the accession process itself; defines the operational plan for accession activities and priority tasks with regard to the environment; assesses the compliance of Slovenian environmental legislation with that of the EU; and provides for the supervision and enforcement of environmental legislation.

States Parties shall provide to or share with each other, as appropriate, relevant scientific and technological information useful to law enforcement authorities in order to enhance each other's abilities to prevent, detect and investigate the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition and to prosecute the persons involved in those illicit activities.

The Board shall be advised in matters related to education, training and research by an International Academic Advisory Board (IAAB) consisting of up to fifteen members who shall be eminent academic personalities or experts of highest qualifications in the fields of anticorruption practice, training and research and/or criminal justice and law enforcement related to anti-corruption as well as other fields of importance for the activities of the Academy.

Due to increasing cross-border activity, competent authorities should provide each other with the relevant information for the exercise of their functions, so as to ensure the effective enforcement of this Directive, including in situations where infringements or suspected infringements may be of concern to authorities in two or more Member States.

Enforcement activities

A Party's important interests may be affected at any stage of enforcement activity by the other Party.

Each competition authority shall notify the competition authority of the other Party of an enforcement activity if it:

Coordination of enforcement activities

Avoidance of conflicts over enforcement activities

Cooperation and coordination in enforcement activities

are relevant to enforcement activities of the other Party;

(a) are relevant to enforcement activities of the other Party;

'enforcement activity' means any application of competition laws by way of investigation or proceeding conducted by the competition authority of a Party, which may result in the imposition of penalties or remedies.

(iv) enforcement of technical regulations and market surveillance activities;

In any coordinated enforcement activities, the competition authority of each Party shall seek to conduct its enforcement activities with careful consideration to the objectives of the enforcement activities by the competition authority of the other Party.

Each Party will provide the other Party with any significant information that comes to the attention of its competition authorities about anticompetitive activities that its competition authorities believe is relevant to, or may warrant, enforcement activity by the other Party's competition authorities.

Where the competition authorities of both Parties are pursuing enforcement activities with regard to related matters, they shall consider coordination of their enforcement activities.

the possibility of reducing costs incurred by persons subject to the enforcement activities.

(e) the possible reduction of cost to the persons subject to the enforcement activities; and

Enforcement activities as to which notification ordinarily will be appropriate include those that:

the opportunity to make more efficient use of their resources devoted to the enforcement activities;

The requested competition authority shall carefully consider whether to initiate enforcement activities, or whether to expand ongoing enforcement activities, with respect to the anti-competitive activities identified in the request.

The Parties recognize, however, that as a general mater the potential for adverse impact on one Party's important interests arising from enforcement activity by the other Party is less at the investigative stage and greater at the stage at which conduct is prohibited or penalized, or at which other forms of remedial orders are imposed.

Enforcement activities that may affect the important interests of the other Party include those that:

Upon receiving a request from the other Party, and within the limits of Articles VIII and IX, a Party will provide to the requesting Party such information within its possession as the requesting Party may describe that is relevant to an enforcement activity being considered or conducted by the requesting Party's competition authorities.

In cases where both Parties have an interest in pursuing enforcement activities with regard to related situations, they may agree that it is in their mutual interest to coordinate their enforcement activities.

Nothing in this Article limits the discretion of the notified Party under its competition laws and enforcement policies as to whether or not to undertake enforcement activities with respect to the notified anticompetitive activities, or precludes the notifying Party from undertaking enforcement activities with respect to such anticompetitive activities.

(a) the effect of such coordination on their ability to achieve the objectives of their enforcement activities;

In any coordination arrangement, each Party shall conduct its enforcement activities expeditiously and, insofar as possible, consistently with the enforcement objectives of the other Party.

The competition authority of each Party shall give careful consideration to the important interests of the other Party throughout all phases of its enforcement activities, including decisions regarding the initiation of enforcement activities, the scope of enforcement activities and the nature of sanctions or other relief sought in each case.

the existence or absence of reasonable expectations that would be furthered or defeated by the enforcement activities;

(f) the potential advantages of coordinated relief to the Parties and to the persons subject to the enforcement activities.

(h) the degree to which effective sanctions or other relief can be secured by the enforcement activities of the Party against the anti-competitive activities; and

the effect of such coordination on the ability of both Parties to achieve the objectives of their enforcement activities; and

Subject to appropriate notification to the competition authority of the other Party, the competition authority of either Party may, at any time, limit or terminate the coordination of enforcement activities and pursue their enforcement activities independently.

When either Party informs the other Party that specific enforcement activities by the latter Party may affect the former's important interests, the latter Party shall endeavour to provide timely notice of significant developments of such enforcement activities.

the relative abilities of the Parties' competition authorities to obtain information necessary to conduct the enforcement activities;

the extent to which enforcement activities of the other Party with respect to the same persons, including judgments or undertakings resulting from such activities, may be affected.

the degree of conflict or consistency between the enforcement activities and the other Party's laws or articulated economic policies; and

The Argentinian enforcement authority may nevertheless grant a single three (3) month extension of the period for beginning fishing activities.

(b) the relative abilities of the competition authorities of the Parties to obtain information necessary to conduct the enforcement activities;

(i) the extent to which enforcement activities by the other Party with respect to the same persons, either natural or legal, would be affected.

In considering whether particular enforcement activities should be coordinated, the Parties shall take account of the following factors, among others:

The pursuit of fishing activities under this Agreement shall be subject to the possession of a fishing licence issued by the Argentinian enforcement authority.

'enforcement activities' shall mean any application of competition law by way of investigation or proceeding conducted by the competition authorities of a Part; and

Each Party shall notify the other whenever its competition authorities become aware that their enforcement activities may affect important interests of the other Party.

(e) the term "enforcement activities" means any application of competition laws by way of investigation or proceeding conducted by the competition authority of a Party.