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ARTICLE — 21 april 2022

The Right to repair initiative: Environmental benefits must exceed the costs for the industry

Swedish Enterprise support the European Commission’s Right to repair initiative and its objective of extending the useful life of goods. But before implementation, an impact assessment should be made so that it is ensured that environmental benefits exceed the costs for the industry.

ARTICLE — 21 april 2022

Position of the Swedish Confederation of Enterprise on the Deforestation Initiative

The European Commission has released a proposal that aims to reverse deforestation. While any efforts to reverse deforestation should be welcomed, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise is concerned with a number of elements of the proposal.

ARTICLE — 13 april 2022

New Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) risks counteracting the green transition and prolonging permit processes

The EU’s industrial emissions directive weakens companies’ ability to continue to switch to more sustainable production, writes Karin Nilsson, environmental policy expert.

ARTICLE — 7 april 2022

Sara Skyttedal: Company board gender-quotas are not an issue for the EU

The European Parliament is expected to give green light to start negotiations to increase the gender balance of listed company boards in European companies. MEP Sara Skyttedal (KD/EPP) is critical.

ARTICLE — 7 april 2022

Lack of consensus over the future of EU industrial policy

The pandemic triggered everything from vaccine nationalism to trade disruption. Intensive discussions are now underway on the EU’s role in global value chains of the future. However, opinions are divided on how the bloc should act going forward.

ARTICLE — 7 april 2022

The EU’s work on sustainable products must go hand-in-hand with strengthened European competitiveness

Swedish Enterprise’s preliminary comments on the European Commission’s Sustainable Product Initiative

ARTICLE — 5 april 2022

A solution for handling of transatlantic data flows is urgently required

The importance of economic relations between the US and EU has taken on an extra dimension following the onset of the war in Ukraine. Therefore, a new EU-US data transfer agreement must be concluded as early as possible.

ARTICLE — 1 april 2022

Will the Data Act guarantee competitiveness for European business?

The Data Act is a cornerstone of the European data strategy and will have a range of opportunities, implications, and challenges for companies and organisations.

ARTICLE — 30 mars 2022

Transatlantic relations and digital issues

How should Europe and the US best cooperate on digital issues? This is a question that will be discussed when ministers from Sweden and other “Digital Frontrunners” - the so-called D9+ countries - gather in Prague next week.

ARTICLE — 29 mars 2022

New framework for data flows between the EU and the US positive for transatlantic trade

EU and US are one step closer to introducing a new framework for free transatlantic data flows, which is a welcome development for transatlantic trade.

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