The EU Commission calls for contributions regarding the relationship between competition and sustainability policies

With the announcement of the European Green Deal at the latest, the issue of sustainability and environmental protection has been pushed high up the agenda of competition law practitioners and scholars. With the recently published background paper of the German Working Group on Competition Law (Arbeitskreis Kartellrecht), German competition law experts have joined the ongoing discussion, following different current initiatives at EU level. Where we stand Following progressive advances by the Dutch and Greek competition authorities, professors, judges, representatives of competition authorities and other members of the German competition law community have dedicated their annual conference of the Working Group on Competition Law to the topic "Open Markets and Sustainable Business – Public