1. The importance of Article 11 TFEU for regulating business in the EU : securing the very basis of our existence / Anja Wiesbrock and Beate Sjafjell -- 2. The sky is the limit : on the drafting of Article 11 TFEU's integration obligation and its intended reach / Julian Nowag -- 3. Article 11...

"The relationship between environmentally sustainable development and company law and related areas of business law and policy has emerged in recent years as a matter of major concern for many scholars, policy-makers, businesses and nongovernmental organisations. This book combines a conceptual...

What is the role of supranational law in making national law disciplines such as company law comply with and work towards objectives and principles of international treaties? In international law and politics, there is a growing recognition of sustainable development as an all-important...

The EU Non-Financial Directive of 2014 has a great potential for stimulating change towards the much needed corporate sustainability, with its unprecedented inclusion of broader sustainability issues, which are not limited to the legal entity of the company, and of the key mechanism of due...

The topic of this chapter is what taking Article 11 of the Treaty on the Function of the European Union seriously could mean for European company law and corporate governance. Article 11 TFEU provides a legal basis for including environmental protection requirements in all policies and areas and...

This concluding chapter of the book “The Greening of European Business under EU Law: Taking Article 11TFEU Seriously” finds that, in spite of its importance in reaching long-term EU environmental objectives, the environmental integration principle has been remarkably absent from EU policy...

As major purchasers of goods and services from the private sector, public entities have significant market power allowing them to influence corporate behaviour by attaching environmental and/or social criteria to public contracts. The power of public procurement as a market instrument makes it...