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More Room for Sustainability Initiatives?
The article “More Room for Sustainability Initiatives?” by Dario Chiari frames the bill in its political and legal context, it summarises the conflict between competition law and sustainability initiatives in the Netherlands and explains how the bill intends to solve the conflict and its functioning. Lastly, it highlights some shortcomings and possible improvements.
Background
In 2015 a broad coalition, including business associations and NGOs called on the Dutch government to remove the barriers that competition law can create for collaborative sustainability and CSR initiatives.
Since then the Minister of Economic Affairs considered several solutions and came up in 2017 with a quite innovative legislative proposal; the ‘Bill room for sustainability initiatives’. This bill has recently been submitted to public consultation. Further decision-making on the bill will continue once the Netherland has a new government.
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What is Non-Financial Reporting? And how will it change European business?
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CSR voter guide compares policy ambitions of Dutch political parties
MVO Platform has developed a voter guide (MVO Kieswijzer) on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Accountability for the upcoming Dutch general elections of March 2017. This guide contrasts the policy ambitions of political parties,…
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Progress on voluntary agreements and legislation
Update of two developments in the Netherlands: progress of the ICSR covenant policy and the development of legislation that makes it possible to declare private agreements on sustainability mandatory for the whole sector. 1) International…
A new website on ICSR covenants or sector agreements is launched by the Social and Economic Council: https://t.co/TvwNZiqX0K