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Competitiveness Council (COMPET)

configuration of the Council of the European Union

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ2132310 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Competitiveness Council (COMPET) is a configuration of the Council of the European Union that meets at least four times a year. This council brings together ministers responsible for trade, economy, industry, research and innovation and space from all the EU member states. It deals with four policy areas: internal market, industry, research and innovation and space.

This council was created in June 2002 through the merging of three previous configurations (Internal Market, Industry and Research).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Competitiveness Council (COMPET)” as configuration of the Council of the European Union. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Competitiveness, Council and COMPET can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as configuration of the Council of the European Union. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2132310. VIAF identifies the subject as 1243145857082822921728. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Competitiveness Council (COMPET)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.