Tag: Sustainability

By Roman Inderst2 & Stefan Thomas3   Austria and the Netherlands are two examples where since 2021 the goal of (ecological) sustainability has been enshrined in...

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...

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,...

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....

By Tilman Kuhn1 & Vinicius Marques de Carvalho2 There are moments in history in which the movements of the political, social and economic conjuncture intertwine...

By Maarten Pieter Schinkel & Leonard Treuren (University of Amsterdam) The green antitrust movement aims to increase sustainability efforts by relaxing competition. Yet the economic...

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has drawn up rules of thumb for sustainability claims that businesses use when selling their products...

It is considered by many that sustainability considerations should not be taken into account by competition authorities when analyzing the effects of a conduct...

The EU roadmap for making the economy sustainable by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 and by at least 50 percent...

Some of the biggest challenges the world faces require companies to work together, e.g. the provision of living wages. This cooperation sometimes requires discussion...