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Greenwashing as Unfair Competition Practice
Hamáčková, Magdalena ; Hurychová, Klára (advisor) ; Patěk, Daniel (referee)
Greenwashing as Unfair Competition Practice Abstract: The thesis focuses on one of the major obstacles in the fight against climate change, greenwashing. Given the difficulty in defining and the diversity of this phenomenon, this thesis aims to introduce greenwashing and examine it through the lens of unfair competition law. In particular, it examines whether greenwashing can be an unfair competition act, i.e. whether it fulfils the general unfair competition clause, whether it can possibly also fulfil one of the special unfair competition acts and whether the current unfair competition legislation is sufficient or whether it would be appropriate to create a new special unfair competition act regulating greenwashing. The first chapter of the thesis focuses on competition, defines competition law and discusses the basic concepts related to competition. All of this is important in order to subsequently highlight how competition is changing in the context of environmental protection efforts and related activities and what threats it faces. The second chapter continues with the definition of the law against unfair competition, explains the nature of unfair competition, introduces the general clause of unfair competition and describes in more detail the three most important specific acts of unfair competition...
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