Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

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The Success of the Nordic Corporate Governance Model

The Nordic corporate governance model is proved successful and it ensures accountability and legal certainty while encouraging the long-term, active ownership of businesses. This is one of the reasons why the Nordic business community is critical of the European Commission’s proposal for CSDD.

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Busy times to draft formulate the AI Act

Work on the proposed AI Act will continue in the autumn in the European Council and Parliament. A large number of amendments are on the table. It is now time to draft formulate an applicable regulation that fulfils the purpose of the proposed act.

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Protection of trade secrets must be enshrined in the Data Act

Proposals for a new data act should, as far as possible, allow businesses to share data based on trust and freedom of contract. Rules on mandatory data sharing must not contradict union laws that protect other interests, especially the protection of privacy, security and trade secrets.

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An overly far-reaching instrument

The proposal for a Single Market Emergency Instrument (SMEI), which was launched on 19 September, demonstrates that the European Commission has not paid sufficient attention to the concerns expressed by the business organisations when responding to the consultations this spring.

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EU need to put competitiveness high up on the agenda

”It is worrying that today there is no overall strategy for strengthening competitiveness at EU level, therefore we need to put competitiveness high up on the agenda”, writes The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic in a joint statement.

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