Tag: Sustainability
The EU’s Draft Horizontal Guidelines: Chilling Innovation on Sustainability?
By Jay Modrall1
In response to demand from customers, investors, employees and other stakeholders, as well as new legal requirements, businesses face huge pressure...
The World’s First Green Antitrust Provision Shows That Climate Action Is...
By: Victoria H.S.E. Robertson (ProMarket)
Late last year, Austria became the first country to enact a green antitrust provision—an exemption shielding corporate agreements related to...
Sustainability and Competition: How Competition Law Enforcement Needs to Be Overhauled...
By Roman Inderst2 & Stefan Thomas3
Austria and the Netherlands are two examples where since 2021 the goal of (ecological) sustainability has been enshrined in...
Greening EU Competition Law: Commission Invites Comments On Draft Revised Rules...
By: Nicole Kar & Lauren O'Brien (Linking Competition)
Last week, the European Commission published its much-anticipated draft revised Horizontal Guidelines and two Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations (in...
Antitrust and Sustainability: An Introduction to an Ongoing Debate
By: Julian Nowag (Pro Market)
Beyond Covid-19, the last few decades have been marred by numerous tragedies: freak weather events caused by climate change, biodiversity loss,...
Sustainability Under Article 101 (3) TFEU
By: Thomas Lübbig (D'Kart)
Sustainability – More than a Weasel Word?
Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager delivered her keynote address at the European Commission’s Young Experts conference in Brussels....
Sustainability in Brazilian and EU Antitrust Enforcement – Where Do We...
By Tilman Kuhn1 & Vinicius Marques de Carvalho2
There are moments in history in which the movements of the political, social and economic conjuncture intertwine...
Green Antitrust: Friendly Fire in the Fight against Climate Change
By Maarten Pieter Schinkel & Leonard Treuren (University of Amsterdam)
The green antitrust movement aims to increase sustainability efforts by relaxing competition. Yet the economic...
ACM Draws Up Rules Of Thumb For Sustainability Claims
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has drawn up rules of thumb for sustainability claims that businesses use when selling their products...
Sustainability as a Quality Dimension of Competition: Protecting Our Future (Selves)
It is considered by many that sustainability considerations should not be taken into account by competition authorities when analyzing the effects of a conduct...
