12/20/2022 6:06:23 PM Let’s cut to the Race: Antitrust and sustainability initiatives | LinkingCompetition | Blog | Insights | Linklaters By Jonathan Ford Aoife Monaghan Zoe Cameron The tension between antitrust laws and sustainability goals came into focus through 2022 and looks set to continue in 2023. This article...
11/2/2022 9:07:10 AM US: Some States increasingly experiment with various anti-ESG legal approaches By Doug Davison Menaka Nayar Chloe Shostak While the U.S. federal government has thrown its weight behind climate and ESG issues as a top priority and has issued a flurry of...
10/26/2022 3:41:06 PM Move over digital: killer acquisitions are going green By Linklaters Everyone’s talking about killer acquisitions. Competition authorities globally are laser focused on properly scrutinising these perceived...
9/16/2022 3:10:52 PM They did it again – Crisis Manager FCO allows exclusive cooperation between big German gas wholesalers By Dorothee de Crozals Kaan Gürer New floating LNG terminals are part of the solution to replace discontinued Russian gas supplies for the upcoming winter period in...
9/9/2022 2:33:51 PM Extraordinary decisions in extraordinary times: The German FCO is the first competition authority to allow competitor collaboration for gas shortages By Dorothee de Crozals Kaan Gürer Crisis management with a touch of ESG: The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) this week again demonstrated that it can act quickly and...
8/10/2022 5:01:42 PM Regulation on reducing gas demand in the EU by 15% comes into force By Julia Voskoboinikova On 5 August 2022, a Council Regulation on Coordinated Demand Reduction Measures for Gas (the “Regulation”) was adopted by written...
7/29/2022 8:16:16 AM Dutch competition authority continues to bubble to the top on sustainability By Linklaters At Coca-Cola’s request, the Dutch competition authority (ACM) has blessed a joint agreement among soft-drink suppliers to discontinue...
12/22/2021 3:47:34 PM State aid remains frontrunner for EU Green Deal - new State aid guidelines on Climate, Energy and Environment (CEEAG) By Ina Lunneryd Sari Corrijn Richard Masquelier The European Commission (EC) has published its long-awaited revised Climate, Energy and Environmental Aid Guidelines (CEEAG). The CCEAG...
12/10/2021 3:25:17 PM New proposed EU rules on Platform Work By Jennifer Granado Aranzana Claudia Skibniewski Alvarez Joost Dibbits The digital transition is fast-tracking changes to the labour market. Stemming from two legislative priorities – enabling the digital...
11/23/2021 9:05:01 AM Same, same but green? The Commission’s competition policy for the green transition has a familiar feel By Linklaters How should competition policy support the EU’s green transition? Last week, the European Commission had its say. It published a...
11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM The race to scale up hydrogen - is the EC rolling out the red carpet to public spending? By Ina Lunneryd Take a look at this related cross-practice blog post.