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Polish Competition Authority clarifies merger control rules on notification of extraterritorial joint ventures

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In a much-anticipated move, the Polish Competition Authority's (PCA) revised guidelines on the criteria and procedure for notifying the intention of a concentration (Guidelines) have clarified the criteria for mandatory...more

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UK Draft Regulations Amending Temporary Recognition and Marketing Regimes for CCPs and Collective Investment Schemes

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A draft version of the Collective Investment Schemes (Temporary Recognition) and Central Counterparties (Transitional Provision) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 has been published, alongside a draft explanatory memorandum. The...more

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EU Adopts Cyber Resilience Act for Connected Devices

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On October 10, 2024, the European Council officially adopted the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), a regulation designed to ensure that products with digital features are secure to use and resilient against cyber threats, and that...more

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EDPB Adopts Opinion on the Use of Processors and Sub-processors

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On October 7, 2024, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted an opinion on obligations following from the use of processors and sub-processors (the “Opinion”). The EDPB is the body that seeks to ensure harmonised...more

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Jersey Funds Law SeriesJ: Jersey Managers and Funds Marketing into Europe and the UK

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As Jersey is considered from a UK and an EU perspective to be a "third country", it is outside the scope of full compliance with the AIFMD and can take advantage of the NPPR marketing routes. A Jersey domiciled AIFM will...more

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Budget 2025 - Tax Highlights Ireland

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Budget 2025 announced on 1 October 2024 included a substantial "cost-of-living" package including many one-off payments, as well as outlining a framework to direct substantial tax revenues towards housing, energy, water and...more

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The Sedona Conference Commentary on Proportionality in Cross-Border Discovery: A Brief Overview | Epiq

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The Sedona Conference (TSC) and its Working Group 6 on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery, and Disclosure recently published their Commentary on Proportionality in Cross-Border Discovery (Commentary)...more

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UK Financial Conduct Authority Confirms Date for Opening of Overseas Funds Regime Gateway to New Schemes

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The Financial Conduct Authority has updated its webpage on the Overseas Funds Regime to confirm that it will open the gateway to new schemes on September 30, 2024. From that date, new schemes (schemes not in the Temporary...more

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Brussels Regulatory Brief: Summer 2024

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Antitrust and Competition - The European Commission Opens an Investigation into Alleged Market Allocation and No-Poach Agreements in the Online Food Delivery Sector - On 23 July 2024, the Commission opened an antitrust...more

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EU Data Protection Regulators Publish Additional Guidance On The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

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Last month, the European Data Protection Board – which is composed of the national data protection authorities (‘Supervisory Authorities’) of the countries in the European Economic Area (‘EEA’), as well as the European Data...more

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EU Report on Payment Fraud

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The European Central Bank and the European Banking Authority have published a joint report on payment fraud data. The report assesses payment fraud reported by the industry across the EEA and covers semi-annual data reported...more

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Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 59

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U.S. Court Axes Most of SEC's SolarWinds Data Breach Suit - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently dismissed much of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) suit against...more

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German Federal Government Adopts Draft CSRD Implementation Act

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The draft represents the next step in transposing the CSRD into national law. On 24 July 2024, the German Federal Government adopted the governmental draft of the Act implementing the EU Directive on Sustainability...more

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FCA Publishes Policy Statement on UK Overseas Funds Regime

On 17 July 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a policy statement (PS24/7) setting out the final rules and guidance necessary to implement the UK’s Overseas Funds Regime (OFR). This follows the FCA’s...more

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Can Privacy Be Bought? How Scrutiny of Meta’s Subscription Model Has Wider Implications –PART II

In Part I, we discussed the European Commission’s (“Commission”) disapproval of Meta’s “pay or consent” subscription model. In Part II, we delve into the European Commission’s findings, prior findings by the European Data...more

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European Commission takes preliminary view that social media platform’s ‘pay or consent’ model does not comply with the DMA

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On 1 July 2024, the European Commission (the ‘Commission’) announced its preliminary findings in an investigation of a leading social media platform, concluding that its ‘pay or consent’ advertising model implemented in the...more

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Charting the Course for Low-Carbon Hydrogen Trade

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By 2050, the cost of producing low-carbon hydrogen is expected to be five times higher in the most expensive regions than the least expensive regions, according to the Hydrogen Council. This significant cost gap will require...more

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International Transfers of Personal Data After Schrems II: Practical Compliance Steps

Quick Hits Schrems II Recap Most people are now familiar with the Schrems II requirements to “know your transfers” and to protect personal data when such information is subject to processing (including remote access to...more

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UK Grants Equivalence to EEA UCITS Under Overseas Funds Regime

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The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Overseas Funds Regime) (Equivalence) (European Economic Area) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/635) were made on May 13, 2024 and enter into force on July 16, 2024. Established by the...more

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AI Watch: Global regulatory tracker - Norway

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Position paper informs Norwegian approach to AI, with sector-specific legislative amendments to regulate developments in AI. Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (the “AI Regulations”) Currently, there are no...more

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Sanctions Update: EU Tightens Restrictions on Professional Services and Business-Critical Software for Russia

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The EU’s 12th and 13th “packages” of sanctions on Russia cancel a significant exemption, ban the provision of certain software systems, and impose multiple other measures. This Client Alert is published in the context of...more

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The French Law on the Regulation of Games Including NFT is Passed: Place Your Bets

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We have been talking about it since last year: the bill to secure and regulate the digital space ("SREN") has now been passed. The legislative process leading up to the enactment of the SREN bill has been slow (as a reminder:...more

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Transposition of Credit Servicers Directive in Ireland – Overview

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On 29 December 2023, the Minister for Finance signed the European Union (Credit Servicers and Credit Purchasers) Regulations 2023 (the "Regulations") into law, thereby transposing the Directive on credit servicers and credit...more

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AIFMD 2.0: A Focus on Existing Funds That Originate Loans (Transitional Provisions)

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AIFMD 2.0 enters into force today –15 April 2024. Member States have 24 months to transpose the provisions into national law, meaning that AIFMD 2.0 will take effect from 16 April 2026....more

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AIFMD II Enters into Force: Key Changes to EU Fund Regime

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After several years of negotiations between the European Commission, European Council, and European Parliament following the publication of the initial draft proposal in November 2021, AIFMD II was published in the Official...more

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