Exactly one year from now, on September 12, 2025, the EU Data Act will enter into application. This new regulation provides harmonized rules on data access, switching cloud providers, and interoperability requirements across...more
9/13/2024
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Compliance Dates ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Subject Access Requests ,
Enforcement ,
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EU Data Protection Laws ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
International Harmonization
In a landmark decision, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has limited the European Commission’s (EC) ability to review mergers that fall outside thresholds at the EC level and in the Member States seeking to refer the...more
9/6/2024
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Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Merger Control Regulation ,
Jurisdiction ,
Jurisdictional Thresholds ,
Member State ,
Merger Controls ,
Merger Reviews ,
Mergers ,
Threshold Requirements
In this blog post, we will focus on obligations that the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) sets for deployers, providers, importers and distributors regarding high-risk AI systems....more
8/27/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Compliance ,
Cooperation ,
Digital Service Providers ,
Distributors ,
EU ,
Importers ,
Machine Learning ,
New Legislation ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Risk-Based Approaches ,
Supply Chain ,
Third-Party Service Provider ,
Transparency
On July 23, the European Commission, US Department of Justice, US Federal Trade Commission, and UK Competition and Markets Authority released a joint statement setting out shared principles on competition in markets that...more
7/26/2024
/ Algorithms ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Competition ,
Data Collection ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Innovative Technology ,
Joint Policy Statements ,
Machine Learning ,
Personal Data ,
Technology Sector ,
UK ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
In this blog post, we will focus on the identification of “high-risk AI systems” under the Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) and the requirements applying to such systems. As explained in our previous blog posts, the AI...more
The EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on July 12, 2024, as “Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down...more
This blog post focuses on the transparency requirements associated with certain limited-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems under Article 50 of the European Union’s AI Act....more
The EU legislature has finally reached an agreement on the text of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) (see here our previous client alert). The CS3D profoundly affects the ways companies active in...more
This blog post focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) practices prohibited under the EU AI Act. Article 5 of the AI Act essentially prohibits AI practices that materially distort peoples’ behavior or that raise serious...more
On March 13, 2024, the European Parliament adopted the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). It is considered to be the world’s first comprehensive horizontal legal framework for AI. It provides for EU-wide rules on data...more
3/15/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Parliament ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Machine Learning ,
Member State ,
New Legislation ,
OECD ,
Risk Assessment ,
Technology Sector
On February 8, 2024, the European Commission (Commission) adopted its revised Market Definition Notice (Notice), replacing a version that was nearly 30 years old. The Notice is not binding, but it provides guidance on how the...more
On 22 December 2023, the EU published Regulation (EU) 2023/2854, the Data Act, in the Official Journal of the EU. The Data Act is a new regulation providing harmonised rules on access to data, switching cloud providers and...more
1/25/2024
/ B2B Organizations ,
Cloud Computing ,
Connected Items ,
Data Controller ,
Data Protection ,
Data Subject Access Requests ,
Digital Single Market ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
International Harmonization ,
New Regulations ,
Personal Data ,
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) ,
Technology Sector ,
Third-Party
On November 27, 2023, the Council of the European Union adopted the EU Data Act, a new regulation providing harmonized rules on access to data, switching cloud providers, and interoperability requirements across the EU. The...more
On December 8, representatives from the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the European Union (EU) reached political agreement on the shape and contents of the EU’s AI Act (the “Act”), setting...more
On November 27, 2023, the Council of the European Union adopted the EU Data Act, a new regulation providing harmonized rules on access to data, switching cloud providers and interoperability requirements across the EU. The...more
On November 27, 2023, the Council of the European Union adopted the EU Data Act (Data Act), a new regulation providing harmonized rules on access to data, switching cloud providers and interoperability requirements across the...more
On November 9, 2023, the European Parliament adopted the EU Data Act, a new regulation providing harmonized rules on access to data, switching cloud providers and interoperability requirements across the EU. It is widely...more
11/16/2023
/ Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) ,
Connected Entities ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data-Sharing ,
Digital Single Market ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Commission ,
European Parliament ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Member State ,
New Legislation ,
Personal Data ,
Transparency
On October 12, 2023, the European Commission (EC) ordered Illumina to unwind its already completed acquisition of the cancer-test provider GRAIL Inc. This is the first time that the EC has ordered a reversal of an...more
On September 25, 2023, the European Commission (EC) blocked the proposed acquisition by Booking Holdings, Inc. of Flugo Group Holdings AB (eTraveli). This is the EC’s first prohibition of a transaction this year and its...more
The EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) was adopted in late 2022. Its stated aim is to combat the effects of competitive distortions caused by foreign subsidies in the EU internal market and thereby level the playing...more
8/9/2023
/ Competition ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Merger Control Regulation ,
Foreign Subsidies ,
Member State ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
New Regulations ,
Public Procurement Policies ,
State Aid ,
State-Owned Enterprises ,
Threshold Requirements
On June 1, 2023, the European Commission (EC) adopted revised Horizontal Guidelines (HGs) and two updated block exemption regulations (BERs) on research and development (R&D) and “specialisation” agreements. These materials...more
7/31/2023
/ Competition ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Guidance Update ,
Horizontal Merger Guidelines ,
Horizontal Mergers ,
Joint Venture ,
Purchase Agreement ,
Research and Development ,
Safe Harbors ,
Sustainability ,
V-BER (Vertical Block Exemption Regulation)
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted its long-awaited adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“Adequacy Decision”). This ends a three-year journey to set up a successor to the EU-U.S. Privacy...more
7/12/2023
/ Adequacy Requirement ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Iceland ,
International Data Transfers ,
Liechtenstein ,
Member State ,
Norway ,
Personal Data ,
U.S. Commerce Department
On February 6, 2023, the European Commission (EC) published a draft Implementing Regulation (the Implementing Regulation) setting out rules and procedures for the application of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR)....more
On November 28, 2022, the Council of the European Union (Council) gave its final approval to the proposed Regulation on Foreign Subsidies (Regulation), concluding seven months of negotiations with the EU Parliament. Under...more
On 23 February 2022, the European Commission (“Commission”) adopted a proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (“Proposed Directive”) laying down new obligations for large companies to ensure that their...more