Publications

Review of the General Block Exemption Regulation (State Aid) – Commission consultation – a BusinessEurope position paper

30.10.2025 Read more

Revision of EU antitrust procedural rules – BusinessEurope reply to the Commission consultation

29.09.2025 Read more

Review of the Merger Guidelines – BusinessEurope reply to the Commission consultation

03.09.2025 Read more

Clean Industry State Aid Framework (CISAF) – BusinessEurope reply to the Commission consultation

25.04.2025 Read more

EU competition policy – Priorities for the next political cycle

Overview Well-functioning competition rules play a fundamental role in the internal market, both in terms of limiting distortions and ensuring efficiency and innovation by allowing competitors to ent...

13.11.2024 Read more

Draft Guidance on Exclusionary Abuses of Dominance – BusinessEurope position paper in reply to the European Commission consultation

25.10.2024 Read more

Priorities for the future of the EU state aid framework

20.06.2024 Read more

The Aarhus Convention and state aid decisions – Letter from Markus J. Beyrer to Margrethe Vestager

29.06.2023 Read more

European Commission consultation on a draft revised market definition notice – a BusinessEurope position paper

13.01.2023 Read more

Temporary Crisis Framework – Letter from Markus J. Beyrer to Margrethe Vestager

A similar letter was sent to Thierry Breton....

10.10.2022 Read more

EU antitrust enforcement: evaluation of Regulations 1/2003 and 773/2004 – BusinessEurope reply to the European Commission consultation

10.10.2022 Read more

Draft revised horizontal block exemption regulations (HBER) and draft guidelines on horizontal cooperation agreements – BusinessEurope reply to the European Commission consultation

05.05.2022 Read more

General block exemption regulation (state aid): targeted review – a BusinessEurope position paper

20.12.2021 Read more

EU competition policies need to acknowledge global challenges

Following Executive Vice-President Margarete Vestager setting out her strategy for the future of EU competition policy, BusinessEurope’s Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: “We support reviewi...

18.11.2021 Read more

Draft vertical block exemption regulation (VBER) and draft guidelines on vertical restraints – BusinessEurope reply to the European Commission consultation

17.09.2021 Read more

Climate, energy and environmental state aid guidelines – a BusinessEurope position paper

02.08.2021 Read more

Revision of the communication on state aid rules for important projects of common European interest (IPCEI) – a BusinessEurope position paper

27.04.2021 Read more

Revision of the Energy and Environmental State Aid Guidelines – BusinessEurope’s reply to the consultation by the European Commission

26.01.2021 Read more

How competition policy can contribute to the Green Deal – BusinessEurope contribution to the European Commission consultation

27.11.2020 Read more

European Commission Notice on the definition of relevant market for the purposes of Community competition law – a BusinessEurope position paper

08.10.2020 Read more

Proposal for a new competition tool – a BusinessEurope position paper

08.09.2020 Read more

Evaluation of the vertical block exemption regulation and guidelines on vertical restraints

29.01.2020 Read more

EU legal and competition policies should acknowledge global challenges

Today, Executive Vice President-designate Margarete Vestager will be heard in the European Parliament hearing, especially on her strategy for the future of EU law and competition policy. BusinessEurop...

08.10.2019 Read more

Competition policy – Letter from Markus J. Beyrer to Margrethe Verstager

25.09.2019 Read more