Sustainability and EU Competition Law

Department of Law

<h2>Speaker</h2><p>Prof. Krystyna Kowalik-Bańczyk, <em>Judge, General Court of the European Union</em></p><h2>Abstract</h2><p>Sustainability in competition law has become a popular subject. The purpose of the lecture would be to explain what sustainability means in competitive context and what is its relationship with EU competition law. First, the question of a possible evolution of goals of competition law needs to be addressed, as if traditionally competition law seeks to achieve consumer welfare, one might wonder if a broader, horizontal obligation covering all domains of law, consisting in taking into account the environmental effects of any legislative and executive activity should not be included in antitrust goals analysis. Second, the EU courts case law shows that sustainability appears in different domains of EU law and more specifically within competition law some examples reveal very different approaches to this issue. Third, the legitimacy of Competition Authorities and the Courts to make this type of choice to either include a new goal of competition law in their practice or to adopt a horizontal approach of scrutinizing any economic activity not only through the lenses of economic viability but also environmental viability is to be analysed. The issue of expertise to do this type of exercise is also to be discussed. </p><p><a href="https://wwwen.uni.lu/forschung/fdef/dl/news_events/sustainability_and_eu_competition_law" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://wwwen.uni.lu/forschung/fdef/dl/news_events/sustainability_and_eu_competition_law</a></p><h1>Biography</h1><p>Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, habilitated doctor, graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk, post-graduate studies in European law at the University of Social Sciences in Toulouse (France), Master of European Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). Judge at the General Court of the European Union as of September 2016.  </p><h3>Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars: Where Environmental Law Meets Economic Law</h3><p><strong>Objective</strong>: Our sustainability lunchtime seminars will create a venue to study the interaction between EU environmental law and EU economic law. In light of the European Green Deal framework, our objective is twofold. On the one hand, we intend to analyse how economic law could evolve to better integrate environmental rules, principles, and objectives. On the other hand, we intend to examine how environmental law could better address economic-law challenges and realities. To reach sustainability and meet EU Green Deal objectives, there must be a close interaction between environmental law and economic law; for now, these two disciplines have very different scopes and functions.</p><p><strong>Methodology</strong>: Through our selection of topics and speakers, we intend to find new channels of connection between EU environmental law and EU economic law. To do so, we will combine two approaches. Through a substantive approach we will focus on the correlation between environmental law and specific economic policies, for example, consumer law, competition law, investment law, corporate law, trade law, and finance. By means of a sectoral approach will examine specific topics that demand integration between environmental and economic law (e.g., 5G, and deforestation).</p><p><strong>Format</strong>: Our online lunchtime seminars will be held once a month throughout 2022 from 12:30 to 13:30 (Luxembourg time) and include presentations given by young researchers, renowned professors, and expert practitioners. Our working language will be English. All interested people, both within and without academia, are encouraged to attend our online seminars. </p><p><strong>Output</strong>: EU Law Live will publish two Weekend Editions (one in July and the other in December 2022), setting out the key ideas and main proposals arising out of our Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars.</p><p><strong>Organisation</strong>: Alessandra Donati, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg and Attorney at Law in Italy and France will organise our Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars. She can be reached at alessandra.donati@uni.lu.</p><p>In collaboration with the Belgio-Luxembourg Hub of ELI (European Law Institute) and ALDE (Association Luxembourgeoise pour le droit de l’environnement).</p><p>EU Law Live will be the media partner of the Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars.</p><p>Click <a href="https://wwwfr.uni.lu/fdef/fdef_house_for_sustainable_governance_and_markets" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here </a>to find out more about our Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars.</p>

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