Brussels effect

Non-EU companies exporting globally can find that it is beneficial to adopt standards set in Brussels uniformly throughout their business.

[13] Research has indicated that the EU's regulatory power varies substantially depending on the context of the regulation involved.

This means that any airline, regardless of their country of origin, has to purchase emissions permits for any flights within the European Economic Area.

[21] Its successor, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), was adopted on 14 April 2016 and had a global effect.

[31] The expectation was that, due to the EU's large marketplace, the EU-specific regulation would nonetheless result in a change in how products were manufactured for sale in other countries (to ensure a single global product), and that other jurisdictions would adopt equivalent legislation.