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On 23 February 2022, the European Commission (the EC) published the long-awaited proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (the...more
On 21 December 2021, the European Parliament’s (EP) Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (the Committee) published its Draft Report on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the...more
The European Commission published its long-awaited Strategy for Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy (the Strategy) today.
The Strategy was announced as part of the European Green Deal in 2019 (originally...more
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The EU Directive of 26 February 2014 on public procurement (the Public Procurement Directive) allows for tenders to rely on the capacity of a third party to meet the selection criteria. ...more
On 15 March 2021, the European Commission (the Commission) published its long-awaited “Notice on tools to fight collusion in public procurement and on guidance on how to apply the related exclusion ground” (the Notice).
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An EU-wide sustainability reporting standard has been proposed by the European Commission ahead of a possible new international reporting standard on sustainability. The EU proposals expand the scope of non-financial...more
In its most recent case law, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) provides further guidance on the demarcation between real estate transactions and the application of public procurement legislation to contracts for works.
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The EU Taxonomy Regulation has been in force since 2020, but a critical element of the Regulation – the Technical Screening Criteria (TSC) – has yet to be formally agreed. The European Commission’s announcement on 21 April...more
In the past years (and months), there has been a growing wave of climate change litigation cases, and the cases where plaintiffs have (successfully) invoked fundamental rights are increasing. In our previous two articles...more
To be forewarned is to be forearmed: public procurement procedures and remedies - judgement of the CJEU in CASE C-771/19 NAMA AND OTHERS V ARCHI EXETASIS...more
This e-Alert summarizes a recent judgment of the European Court of Justice regarding the scope of public procurement legislation, in particular concerning the notion of “bodies governed by public law” and how this could apply...more
Sustainable battery development and production is key to the EU’s clean energy and climate neutrality objectives, as they are expected to contribute to the uptake of electric vehicles. For this reason, the use of batteries is...more
In its judgment of 14 January 2021 the European Court of Justice provides guidance on “self-cleaning measures”. The “self-cleaning” measures were introduced in the 2014 Directives on public procurement and allow economic...more
As part of the EU Green Deal’s Circular Economy Action Plan and Plastics Strategy, new rules on the export, import and intra-EU shipment of plastic waste under the Waste Shipment Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006)...more
Belgium has not yet adopted a formal FDI screening mechanism to implement the EU FDI Regulation, but the debate on how to protect certain critical industries remains very relevant, as becomes clear upon assessing the 16...more
Nearly 20 years after the European Commission (the EC) set out its first strategic approach to the management of chemicals in the European Union1 (the EU), it adopted the new EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability – Towards...more
On 4 March 2020, the European Commission (the Commission) published a draft EU climate law, along with inception impact assessments for an EU carbon border adjustment mechanism and revisions to the Energy Taxation Directive....more
The European Commission has invited stakeholders to comment on issues that should be included in the next update of the Blue Guide on the implementation of EU product rules (the Blue Guide). The invitation can be found here....more
On 22 September 2014, the International Bar’s Association task force on Climate Change Justice and Human Rights released its new report Achieving Justice and Human Rights in an Era of Climate Disruption in the wake of the UN...more
Article 4.8.4 of the Flemish Urban Planning Code allowed the Council for Permit Disputes (Raad voor Vergunningsbetwistingen) (ie the Flemish administrative court competent to rule on appeals against urban planning permits) to...more