14 February 2022, Budapest - Concurrences, one of the world's leading competition information portals, has also selected the survey of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) on sustainable development and competition law as nominee for its 2022 Antitrust Writing Award. Votes for the Hungarian publication may be casted on the website of Concurrences by March.
The Hungarian Competition Authority, the GVH published the results of a groundbreaking international survey last October, as the host of the Annual Conference of the International Competition Network (ICN), which brings together the world's competition authorities. This research is the first to assess the global interactions between sustainability and competition law. At the conference Csaba Balázs Rigó, President of the Hungarian Competition Authority presented the results of the survey. The experts discussing this topic agreed that competition authorities can play an important role in keeping the long-term growth of the economy within an appropriate and fair framework without harming natural resources.
Another professional recognition is that one of the world's leading competition information portals selected the Hungarian Competition Authority's survey on sustainability as nominee for its 2022 Antitrust Writing Award. The Editorial Committee of the French-founded now internationally operated Concurrences, composed of competition experts, has nominated the Hungarian survey report in the category of "soft law" instruments (non-binding acts, recommendations and guidelines), for which anyone can vote on the website by 25 March:
The report of the GVH's survey on sustainable development and competition law is also available on the authority's website in English:
GVH Press Office