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Priorities for the future of the EU state aid framework
Competition and state aid

Priorities for the future of the EU state aid framework

20.06.2024 Read more
Consumers/marketing

Industry calls on the Council of the European Union to establish a certain and pragmatic framework under the Green Claims Directive

03.06.2024 Read more
Corporate and legal

EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: BusinessEurope reacts to the Council adoption

24 May 2024 - Reacting to today’s Council agreement which finalises the legislative process to adopt the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J...
24.05.2024 Read more
Consumers/marketing

The EU proposal revising the Directive on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) (Directive 2013/11/EU) – Joint statement by BusinessEurope, Eurochambres and SMEunited

22.05.2024 Read more
Corporate and legal

The EU proposal on compulsory licensing – Joint business statement

08.05.2024 Read more
Consumers/marketing

Industry calls on the Council of the European Union to carefully consider the options for the establishment of a certain and practical framework under the Green Claims Directive

08.05.2024 Read more
Corporate and legal

Agreement on EU due diligence: still far from a workable solution

15 March 2024 - Reacting to today’s agreement on the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: "The new due diligence rules will add...
15.03.2024 Read more
Corporate and legal

Compulsory licensing for crisis management – Letters from Markus J. Beyrer

01.02.2024 Read more
Corporate and legal

EU due diligence could leave companies between a rock and a hard place

Decisive political negotiations on the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive start tomorrow 12 December 2023 - With EU co-legislators intending to close a deal on the Corporate Su...
12.12.2023 Read more
Company law

Multiple-vote share structures proposal in view of trilogue negotiations – Joint statement by BusinessEurope and EuropeanIssuers

06.12.2023 Read more
Accounting harmonisation

Application of the “own use” exception on power purchase contracts – Letter from Erik Berggren to the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)

02.10.2023 Read more
Corporate and legal

EU’s due diligence rules must be workable for companies and must not weaken the internal market

An important political trialogue on the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive takes place today 7 September 2023 - Commenting on the ongoing negotiations, BusinessEurope President F...
07.09.2023 Read more
Corporate and legal

Multiple-vote share structures proposal – a BusinessEurope statement

22.08.2023 Read more
Consumers/marketing

Green Claims proposal – a BusinessEurope position paper

02.08.2023 Read more
Corporate and legal

Proposals on Supplementary Protection Certificates – a BusinessEurope position paper

Key messages Following the entry into operation of the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court on 1st June 2023, it is time now to create the unitary Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC)...
18.07.2023 Read more
Accounting harmonisation

ED/2023/2 – Amendments to the Classification and Measurement of Financial Instruments – Letter from Erik Berggren to the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)

18.07.2023 Read more
Corporate and legal

Compulsory licencing for crisis management – a BusinessEurope position paper

Key messages Compulsory licences weaken the protection granted by patents and they should only be used in mainly knowledge-based economies as a last resort and in very limited circumstances. The c...
18.07.2023 Read more
Accounting harmonisation

Application of the “own use” exception in the light of current market and geopolitical questions – Letter from Erik Berggren to the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)

10.07.2023 Read more
Competition and state aid

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

29.06.2023 Read more
Corporate and legal

Protection of trade secrets in the proposal for a Data Act – Letter from Markus J. Beyrer to Coreper 1

20.06.2023 Read more
Consumers/marketing

The Right to Repair proposal – a BusinessEurope position paper

19.06.2023 Read more
Corporate and legal

EP vote on the corporate sustainability due diligence directive: The European Parliament failed to deliver workable due diligence rules

1 June 2023 - Commenting on the European Parliament’s adoption of its legislative resolution on the corporate sustainability due diligence directive, BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer...
01.06.2023 Read more
Corporate and legal

Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) – Joint business statement

25.05.2023 Read more
Accounting harmonisation

IASB Exposure Draft international tax reform – Pillar Two model rules supplier finance arrangements – Proposed amendments to IAS 12 – Letter from Erik Berggren to the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)

27.02.2023 Read more