Publications and Position papers

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POSITION PAPER — 15 december 2020

EU’s environmental objectives for climate change mitigation and adaptation under the ‘Taxonomy’

Position of the Confederation of Finnish Industries, SA Confederation of Icelandic Enterprice, the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise on the European Commission’s draft delegated Regulation on the EU’s environmental objectives for climate change mitigation and adaptation under the ‘Taxonomy’

REPORT — 14 december 2020

Labour Market Council for EU Affairs - Joint legal analysis of the Commission’s proposal for a directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union

POSITION PAPER — 14 december 2020

Joint comments from Nordic business federations on OECD Blueprints

The Confederations of Swedish Enterprise, the Finnish Industries, the Danish Industry and the Norwegian Enterprise have submitted joint comments on the OECD Blueprint Reports on digital tax (Pillar 1) and Global minimum tax (Pillar 2).

POSITION PAPER — 14 december 2020

Labour Market Council for EU Affairs

Joint legal analysis of the Commission’s proposal for a directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union

POSITION PAPER — 3 december 2020

Public consultation on a potential legislative proposal on substantiating green claims

The initiative responds to the priorities announced in the European Green Deal and its associated Circular Economy Action Plan and Farm to Fork Strategy.

POSITION PAPER — 25 november 2020

Competition policy measures in support of the Green Deal.

The European Commission has published a general request for contributions to highlight the link between EU competition rules and the European Green Deal so that these rules best support the available opportunities to meet its objectives. Here you can find the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise”s views on the current issues.

POSITION PAPER — 18 november 2020

Inception Impact Assessment for Sustainable Product Initiative

We thank the European Commission for the opportunity to provide comments to the Inception Impact Assessment (IIA) on the Sustainable Product Initiative (SPI). The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise welcomes the European Commission”s action plan on circular economy and the SPI. This has the potential to facilitate a functioning market for secondary raw materials and circular products in Europe.

POSITION PAPER — 12 november 2020

Main points on CBAM by the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise support the targets set out in the Paris Agreement. Ideally, the best instrument to deploy would be a global price on carbon. Realizing that this is not realistic for the foreseeable future other venues must be found.

POSITION PAPER — 6 november 2020

Remarks concerning the public consultation on the revision of the Energy Taxation Directive (ETD)

The confederation of Swedish Enterprises supports the European Green Deal and underlines the need for combining decreasing emissions with increased growth.

POSITION PAPER — 27 oktober 2020

Why we oppose a European Minimum Wage Directive

In the near future, the European Commission is expected to present a new Directive on fair minimum wages in the EU. The Swedish Government, parliament and social partners are vigorously opposed to such an idea. In this memo, we try to set out the reasons for this opposition from the perspective of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.