Green Growth and Competition Policy
Green Growth and Competition Policy
The 20th Competition Policy Research Center International Symposium
February 18, 2022
Competition Policy Research Center
With implementation of policies toward carbon neutrality and green growth at a global level, we are seeing that competition on innovation has emerged and the role of competition policy has been shed light on. In order to ensure environments for promoting the competition on innovation, it is getting necessary to implement competition policy from a brand-new perspective toward the future.
Recently, the European Commission has been reviewing its competition policy with the aim to realize the European Green Deal. The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets has released the draft Guidelines on application of the competition law to agreements among businesses for the purpose of environmental protection.
On the other hand, businesses have been positively taking actions for achieving carbon neutrality and green growth. At times, it is pointed out that cooperation and collaboration among businesses may violate competition laws.
As discussed above, there is a new challenge: “how should competition laws be applied to businesses collaborating for environmental protection?”. This topic is attracting attention of competition authorities and experts around the world.
At this Symposium, we are hearing recent initiatives by foreign competition authorities and having a panel discussion with those enforcers and experts in Japan for contributing to planning of Japan’s future competition policy.
1 Date and Venue
| Date | 16:30 - 18:30, March 25, 2022 (Fri) * Japan Standard Time (JST) |
|---|---|
| Venue | Online and the JFTC's office building |
| Language | English - Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation) |
| Admission Charge | Free |
| Organizer | Competition Policy Research Center (CPRC), Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) |
| Co-organized by | Nihon Keizai Shimbun / Fair Trade Institute |
2 Agenda
16:30-16:35 Opening Remarks
| FURUYA Kazuyuki (Chairman, Japan Fair Trade Commission) |
16:35-17:35 Presentation
| 16:35-17:05 | "Sustainability agreements under EU competition law" Jeroen Capiau (Case Handler, Unit A.1 - Antitrust case support and policy, Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission) |
| 17:05-17:35 | "Green growth and Dutch competition policy" Caroline Wolberink (Head of Sustainability Team, The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets) |
17:35-17:45 Break
17:45-18:25 Panel Discussion
| Moderator: | MIYAI Masaaki (Professor, College of Law, Ritsumeikan University / Chief Researcher, CPRC) |
| Panelists: | Jeroen Capiau (Case Handler, Unit A.1 - Antitrust case support and policy, Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission) Caroline Wolberink (Head of Sustainability Team, The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets) TAKAMIYA Yusuke (Partner, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto) YANAGI Takeshi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University) |
18:25-18:30 Closing Remarks
| MATSUSHIMA Noriaki (Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University / Director, CPRC) |
3 Presentation materials
・Jeroen Capiau (PDF:259KB）
・Caroline Wolberink (PDF:211KB)
＜contact＞
Secretariat, Competition Policy Research Center, Japan Fair Trade Commission
E-mail: cprcsec_at_jftc.go.jp (Please replace “_at_” with “@”)
