The paper continues investigations of stationarity and regularity properties of collections of sets in normed spaces. It contains a summary of different characterizations (both primal and dual) of regularity and a list of sufficient conditions for a collection of sets to be regular.

Dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of the journal; its founder and former editor-in-chief, Professor Karl-Heinz Elster;and Professor Alfred Göpfert, an editorial board member since 1988 in celebration of his 80th birthday)Necessary and sufficient criteria for metric subregularity (or calmness) of set-valued mappings between general metric or Banach spaces are treated in the framework of the theory of error bounds for a special family of extended real-valued functions of two variables. A classification scheme for the general error bound and metric subregularity criteria is presented. The criteria are formulated in terms of several kinds of primal and subdifferential slopes.

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The paper presents a general classification scheme of necessary and sufficient criteria for the error bound property incorporating the existing conditions. Several derivative-like objects both from the primal as well as from the dual space are used to characterize the error bound property of extended-real-valued functions on a Banach space.

The paper investigates stationarity and regularity concepts for set systems in a normed space. Several primal and dual constants characterizing these properties are introduced and the relations between the constants are established. The equivalence between the regularity property and the strong metric inequality is established. The extended extremal principle is formulated.