| dc.description.abstract | As the rise of sustainability awareness, corporate sustainable responsibility is welcomed by consumers, government even the global communities. However, the green actions mean the firms need to invest more cost in green innovation. This situation will lead to a first mover disadvantage and increase the number of free riders. Therefore, this article aims to explore whether green cooperation could alleviate this dilemma as well as how competition law work in green collaboration.
In fact, many competition authorities had already published sustainability agreements guidelines, yet, our Fair Trade Commission (TFTC) does not made the statements. Under the urging of legislators, TFTC finally promised to release a relevant report within six months. Thus, this article will try to summary the sustainability agreements guidelines from European Union, Japan, the UK and Singapore while considering our legislative and industrial background then proposed the policy briefs to our TFTC.
This article suggests our green agreements guidelines could just be limited to focus on the concerted action which relate to environmental protection issues. It could adopt ancillary restraints to evaluate cases. Additionally, the guidelines could be modeled after other countries, dividing into three main parts: “Green concerted action that unlikely to be illegal”, “Green concerted action that may be illegal”, and “Exempted”. While it is worth to note that sustainability can be difficult to quantify in certain situations, and there may be disputes over the definition of fair share. Therefore, this aspect could also pose a challenge for TFTC in the future. | en_US |