Does the European Commission’s (Commission’s) second conditional approval under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) signal a new approach to sustainability issues in EU merger cases? On November…
With the Sustainability Omnibus of last week still keeping us in shock and the incoming Digital Omnibus already looming over us, it is important to pause, take a step back, and ask ourselves, what…
The European Commission’s (the Commission’s) review of its Horizontal and Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines (HMG and NHMG, respectively; together, the Guidelines) is well under way. While the update…
Main developments competition law and policy 2020: The Netherlands
As part of the series of posts on the main 2020 developments in key jurisdictions by many authors of the Kluwer Competition Law Blog…
Introduction
On 4 July 2019 a long-awaited Dutch legislative proposal regarding sustainability initiatives ("Wet ruimte voor duurzaamheidsinitiatieven") was submitted to the Dutch House of…