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In this blog, Marieke Driessen and Niek Groenendijk of our Financial Markets team discuss the EU green bonds regulation which will start applying in 2024. 

The rulings by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the discretionary powers of international sports associations to authorise alternative competitions show that the specifics of sports are no reason to tread lightly when applying EU competition rules.

2023 marked the near finale of the European Commission’s overhaul of its competition policy, leaving only a few loose ends to tie up in 2024/2025. It is now time to watch theory be put into practice by the competition authorities and at the courts.

Since 2021, Dutch rules against unfair trading practices, which implemented an EU Directive, apply to business-to-business relationships in agri-food supply chains. Enforcement by the ACM, initially slow, is now intensifying.

Following the EC’s Horizontal Guidelines, the ACM and CMA have also published updated guidance on sustainability agreements. The approaches adopted by the three authorities are largely similar, but leave room for divergent assessments in some respects.

The Rotterdam District Court has delivered its judgment in the ACM's first-ever vertical restraints case. It upholds the fine imposed on Samsung for coordinating its retailers' online consumer prices under the pretence of 'price recommendations'.

By 26 December 2023 at the latest, EU Member States must publish a list of organisations that they have designated as ‘qualified entities’ (bevoegde instanties) for bringing cross-border representative actions within the EU on behalf of consumers.

In een Kamerbrief van 17 december 2021 bespreekt de toenmalige staatssecretaris van I&W het 'Actieprogramma Verankering milieubescherming na Nevele'.

2021 was riddled with sneak previews of a “review of competition policy tools with unprecedented scope and ambition”.

Vanwege de coronacrisis neemt de overheid in België maatregelen, die deels vergelijkbaar zijn met de coronamaatregelen in Nederland. Een van deze maatregelen is de sluiting van binnenruimtes van culturele instellingen.

Wie aan het einde van het jaar de verkiezing van de muziek Top 2000 een beetje volgt, weet waar de schoen wringt als het gaat om evenredige vertegenwoordiging van de diverse generaties in onze maatschappij.

De eisen aan de voorbereidingsprocedure voor en de inhoud van algemeenbelang-besluiten behoeven aanscherping volgens de Minister van Economische Zaken en Klimaat. Daartoe heeft hij een wetsvoorstel op 7 december 2021 naar de Tweede Kamer gestuurd.

Op 24 november 2021 deed de Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State (‘Afdeling’) tussenuitspraak over de inpassingsplannen voor de Gebiedsontwikkeling Oostelijke Langstraat (‘GOL’).

The Commission has imposed interim measures on Illumina and GRAIL. These measures include the obligation to run GRAIL by independent management.

The Commission’s Communication “A competition policy fit for new challenges” (the “Communication”) identifies key areas in which competition law and policy can support European efforts in dealing with the challenges of the green and digital transitions.

Recently, the ECJ ruled that national courts dealing with private enforcement cases are competent to apply EU competition law to historical behaviour in the aviation sector.