A unified patent court agreement, signed on 19 February 2013, would enable businesses to protect their monopoly over their inventions across multiple EU member states by making a single application filing for a unitary patent at the European Patent Office.

Shell Oil and its affiliate partnerships committed to take steps to resolve air pollution charges stemming from its Deer Park plant flaring and other activities. The company also committed to utilise its resources in order to recover and recycle waste gases, limit how much waste gas can be flared, and install and operate instruments and monitoring systems.