The Competition Policy Working Group:
Chair
Nils S. Andersen
Chairman / AkzoNobel
Convenor
Dirk Middelschulte
Unilever
Featured Documents
30 April 2025, Brussels: The European Round Table for Industry (ERT) today published its latest expert paper "Strengthening Europe’s Competitive Edge", outlining a bold and comprehensive agenda for modernising EU...
In this response paper, the European Round Table for Industry (ERT) provides feedback on the European Commission’s draft guidelines on Article 102 TFEU, which addresses exclusionary abuses of market dominance....
ERT is concerned about the effects the proposed implementing Regulation for the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) would have on companies, public procurement procedures and M&A activity in Europe. We therefore...
ERT supports the goal of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (“FSR”) of creating a level playing field for all undertakings operating in the EU internal market by ensuring that companies do...
ERT welcomes the European Commission’s commitment to evaluating and refining its competition law ‘toolkit’ including its publication of the revised draft of the Market Definition Notice on 8 November 2022....
The Competition Policy Working Group of ERT welcomes the European Commission’s continued engagement with stakeholders on revisions to certain procedural aspects of EU merger control. As noted in ERT’s submission...
The European Round Table for Industry (ERT) welcomes the European Commission’s public consultation on its draft revised Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations (BERs) and Horizontal Guidelines published on 1 March 2022....
The Competition Policy Working Group of ERT highly appreciates the European Commission’s decision to revise its guidance for information exchange in a dual distribution context, which is intended to be...
In this paper, ERT examines EU merger control policy more broadly to highlight the most significant current issues and to suggest reforms. EU merger control policy has evolved through the...
The Working Group on Competition Policy of the European Round Table for Industry (ERT) welcomes the European Commission consultation on the revision of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) and...
The Working Group on Competition Policy of the European Round Table for Industry (ERT) welcomes the reflection on the relationship between competition policy and the Green Deal and strongly believes...
Market Definition Notice review The review of the 1997 Market Definition Notice is a timely initiative, especially because the pace of change in many markets has accelerated rapidly in recent...
White Paper on levelling the playing field as regards foreign subsidies European companies are increasingly faced with competition from companies outside the EU that benefit from State support but that...
ERT strongly believes in competition policy and enforcement to secure fairer markets as well as strong competition and welcomes the EU’s efforts to explore how competition policy could evolve to...
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the public consultation on EU competition rules on horizontal agreements. ERT considers that EU competition rules (including the rules on horizontal...
Leaders of some of Europe’s largest employers have today called for an EU competition policy which would allow European businesses to compete successfully at scale in today’s globalised and fast-moving...
Europe needs to take urgent action to deal with the challenges of the 21st century, including tackling climate change and preparing citizens for massive technological developments. ERT's paper, Strengthening Europe’s...
