{"id":880,"date":"2026-08-30T20:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanz-avocat.com\/?p=880"},"modified":"2026-09-01T06:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:42:39","slug":"sustainability-cooperation-assessing-and-taking-environmental-benefits-into-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanz-avocat.com\/index.php\/en\/2026\/08\/30\/sustainability-cooperation-assessing-and-taking-environmental-benefits-into-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Cooperation: Assessing and Taking Environmental Benefits into Account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">While it continues to review the contributions received as part of its public consultation on its informal guidance framework for sustainability initiatives, which closed on 31 July 2026, the French Competition Authority will hold an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoritedelaconcurrence.fr\/en\/article\/save-date-economics-and-sustainability-workshop\">\u201cEconomy and Sustainability\u201d workshop<\/a><\/strong> on 5 October focusing on environmental benefits. The event will bring together academics and practitioners specialising in environmental economics, industrial economics and competition law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, the Authority is maintaining its \u201copen door\u201d policy and encourages companies to seek informal guidance on projects pursuing sustainability objectives, provided they have first conducted and documented their own self-assessment, which must be submitted to the Authority as part of their request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-x-large-font-size\">Compliance Criteria for Sustainability Cooperation Agreements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As a reminder, the compatibility of sustainability cooperation projects with competition law is subject to strict conditions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>the objectives pursued must be legitimate<\/strong>, such as combating climate change, preserving natural resources, reducing pollution, ensuring a fair income, or promoting animal welfare;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>the cooperation must not include any anticompetitive purpose<\/strong>, such as coordination on price increases, market sharing, or reductions in output, quality or innovation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">the cooperation must <strong>not involve coordination or exchanges of competitively sensitive information<\/strong> on competition parameters, including sustainability-related competitive strategies (such as production, marketing or communication choices), <strong>unless it can be demonstrated that such exchanges are indispensable<\/strong> to achieving the project\u2019s legitimate objectives;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">the cooperation must generate <strong>benefits for consumers<\/strong>, including, for example, environmental benefits; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">the cooperation must <strong>not eliminate competition<\/strong> between the parties on the relevant market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"964\" height=\"662\" src=\"http:\/\/sanz-avocat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cooperation-en-matiere-durabilite-EN-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanz-avocat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cooperation-en-matiere-durabilite-EN-1.png 964w, https:\/\/sanz-avocat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cooperation-en-matiere-durabilite-EN-1-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/sanz-avocat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cooperation-en-matiere-durabilite-EN-1-767x527.png 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Safe Harbour for Sustainability Standardisation Agreements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Where a project involves the adoption of sustainability standards, companies should seek to comply with the criteria established by the European Commission in order to benefit from the informal \u201csafe harbour\u201d set out in the <strong>Horizontal Cooperation Guidelines (Section 9.3.2)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>transparency and openness<\/strong>: establish a transparent standard-setting process allowing any interested operator to participate at every stage of its development;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>information safeguards<\/strong>: limit exchanges of commercially sensitive information and ensure that any such exchanges are objectively necessary, proportionate and appropriately protected;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>effective and non-discriminatory access<\/strong>: ensure that all operators can effectively access the standard on non-discriminatory terms;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>voluntary participation<\/strong>: operators must not be required to comply with the standard if they do not wish to join it;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>minimum requirements only<\/strong>: while participants may be required to comply with binding rules in order to adhere to the standard, they must remain free to adopt more stringent sustainability measures; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>limited impact on competition<\/strong>: satisfy one of the two alternative conditions identified by the European Commission:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>no appreciable increase in prices and no significant reduction in quality<\/strong>; or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>limited market coverage<\/strong> (<strong>combined market share of participating companies below 20%<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"694\" src=\"http:\/\/sanz-avocat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Accords-de-normalisation-EN.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanz-avocat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Accords-de-normalisation-EN.png 864w, https:\/\/sanz-avocat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Accords-de-normalisation-EN-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/sanz-avocat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Accords-de-normalisation-EN-767x616.png 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Demonstrating Environmental Benefits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As part of both self-assessments and requests for informal guidance, it is important to <strong>properly document the expected benefits<\/strong> of the proposed cooperation through robust evidence and to weigh those benefits against any potential adverse effects on prices, consumer choice or other competitive parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The methodologies used to quantify environmental benefits and harms, and to incorporate them into competition law assessments, will be one of the key topics discussed during the workshop on 5 October 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published on 30.08.2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it continues to review the contributions received as part of its public consultation on its informal guidance framework for sustainability initiatives, which closed on 31 July 2026, the French Competition Authority will hold an \u201cEconomy and Sustainability\u201d workshop on 5 October focusing on environmental benefits. 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