Publications
Company law
EU company law upgraded – Reply to the European Commission consultation
Background
The Commission work programme for 2017 announced an initiative on company law to facilitate the use of digital technologies throughout a company’s lifecycle and cross-border mergers and...
Consumers/marketing
Liability for defective products – BusinessEurope’s reply to the public consultation
Key messages
The 'product liability' directive (85/374/EEC) establishes a common standard of responsibility in the area of product liability. The directive strikes a good balance between co...
Antitrust
Alternative dispute resolution for antitrust damages
Litigation is in most cases very costly, long and time-consuming and damaging to a company’s image. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) can provide a cheaper, shorter and less confrontational a...
Competition and state aid
Making sense of competition law compliance – A practical guide for SMEs
Understanding the key principles of competition law is essential for any company when it makes a decision on sales strategy, pricing policy, distribution channels and many other commercial topics. Bus...
Competition and state aid
Recommendations for improving EU merger control
Key messages
BusinessEurope supports the Commission’s intention to make EU merger control more efficient and welcomes procedural simplification for unproblematic transactions as well as for c...
Company law
Towards an effective EU insolvency framework
Key messages
BUSINESSEUROPE is generally supportive of a second chance approach to insolvency in the EU which is why it welcomed the 2014 Commission recommendation on business failure and insolvenc...
Corporate and legal