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ARTICLE – June 9, 2021
Swedish Enterprise on the revision of REACH
The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise welcomes a Chemical strategy for sustainability and a revision of REACH that both simplifies the legislation and makes it more efficient. This combined with a strong and coordinated enforcement across the union will protect consumers, environment and ensures a level playing field and competitiveness for business.
ARTICLE – June 7, 2021
The European Commission should implement the Digital Markets Act
In December 2020, the European Commission presented a proposal for a new regulation – the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The purpose of the regulation is to harmonize rules in the digital market to promote innovation and competition.
ARTICLE – May 28, 2021
Position Paper on the proposal to regulate digital services through the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act
The 27th of May, ministers from the EU Member States met in the Competitiveness Council (Single Market and Industry) to discuss the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for the first time. These are two wide-ranging items of legislation, which are proposed to apply to a number of services we all use; they are expected to have a huge impact once they come into force.
ARTICLE – May 28, 2021
Global green issues in focus at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise’s Future Meeting
While the world tackles the climate crisis, other countries should learn from the Swedish example. That was the message from US climate envoy John Kerry and Executive Vice-President Margarete Vestager at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise’s Future Meeting, which largely focused on EU and international issues.
ARTICLE – May 26, 2021
EU Commission’s ”Business Taxation for the 21st Century” is anything but forward-looking
Given its grandiose title - ”Business Taxation for the 21st Century” - the European Commission’s initiative is disappointing. What Europe really needs are competitive rules that promote new investments, new jobs and economic growth. This will not be achieved by imposing additional burdens on those who are genuinely guaranteeing our welfare, namely our businesses.
ARTICLE – May 20, 2021
Data transfer urge certainty
Confusion over international data transfers following the Schrems II ruling is threatening to hamper trade, innovation, and competitiveness. This situation must come to an end if companies are to recover from the pandemic, and if Europe is serious about investing in technological capacity and com...
ARTICLE – May 19, 2021
Suspending patents is not the solution
The solution to the ongoing pandemic is not to weaken intellectual property rights – intellectual property is part of the solution for us to cope with the next pandemic.
ARTICLE – May 17, 2021
EU reopen negotiations with India on a Free Trade Agreement
The EU and India have decided to reopen negotiations on establishing a Free Trade Agreement. In the long term, this could open up huge business opportunities for Swedish companies, both in terms of exports and imports.
ARTICLE – May 12, 2021
Joint Nordic position on Digital Markets Act
The Nordic business organisations of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark present a common position on the European Commission’s new proposal for a Digital Markets Act (DMA).
ARTICLE – May 10, 2021
The updated EU Industrial Strategy: ”Several positive aspects.”
The European Commission on May 5 presented an updated version of its EU industrial strategy. ”There are several positive parts for business in what the Commission is addressing,” says Göran Grén, Head of the Business Policy and Law Division at the Confederation of Enterprise

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