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The European Union's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive may sound dull but it could prove the most important development in travel management in 2023.

BT4Europe, the European Network of Business Travel Associations, has stepped up its call for “swift action” to help make corporate travel greener during meetings with EU officials.

BT4Europe, the new European network of business travel associations, has called for “standardised, accurate and comparable” data on carbon emissions from travel to enable the sector to make progress in reducing its environmental footprint.

Law firm Harcus Parker is bringing a class action lawsuit against Mastercard and Visa in the UK. It alleges that the multilateral interchange fees imposed on airlines, hotels, travel management companies and other merchants which accept Visa and Mastercard commercial card payments are too high and are set anti-competitively.

Despite the billions of euros they spend collectively, Europe’s corporate travel managers go largely unheard by regulators. The massive inconvenience of the European Union’s formal requirement for anyone travelling for work to carry A1 social security certificates “is a good example why BT4Europe was founded,” says Christoph Carnier, president of VDR, the German travel management association.

The association wants a stronger voice for business travel buyers