Compliance Perspectives: The EU Whistleblower Directive
As technology continues to advance almost every aspect of healthcare, so the use of AI has become an increasing focus for developers and the regulators who are racing to keep pace with rapid advancements in technology. ...more
The world officially has its first comprehensive set of major regulations specifically targeting artificial intelligence: the European Union's AI Act. The AI Act was first introduced in 2021, garnering political consensus...more
On March 13, 2024, the European Parliament passed the much-anticipated European AI Act, which is the first comprehensive attempt to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) globally. The AI Act – which is formally known as the...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
Yesterday, March 13, 2024, the European Parliament approved the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”), a sweeping AI governance framework which presents the first comprehensive law in the world aimed at ensuring AI...more
The highly anticipated EU Artificial Intelligence Act is finally here! With extra-territorial reach and wide-reaching ramifications for providers, deployers, and users of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), the Artificial...more
On March 13, 2024, the EU AI Act received its final assent from the EU Parliament with 523 votes in favor, 46 against and 49 abstentions, bringing it one step closer to adoption. Minor linguistic changes are still to be...more
To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main digital regulatory and compliance...more
On Dec. 8, 2023, European Parliament negotiators reached a provisional agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) to regulate the use of AI in the European Union (EU), more than five years after initial calls were...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
The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted the European Data Act on June 28 after lengthy negotiations. The Data Act creates a legal framework for a single European data market, and its key...more
A significant milestone in the legislative process of the AI Act has been reached with the vote of the European Parliament (EP) on June 14, 2023. The text now enters a new phase, during which all three EU institutions (the...more
On 14 June 2023, the European Parliament voted on its approach to the draft Artificial Intelligence Act (the AI Act). The AI Act is a proposal for a Regulation issued by the European Commission (the Commission) in April...more
The European Parliament voted on June 14, 2023 to adopt its position on the draft EU Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) that would impose a comprehensive regulatory regime on AI. More rules are expected to follow for...more
The European Parliament has approved a revised version of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA), which appears to be on a path to adoption by the EU later this year. The AIA is the most comprehensive legislation in the...more
On April 24th, 2023, the Council of the European Union formally adopted the EU Pay Transparency and Pay Reporting Directive, following its approval by the European Parliament on March 30th. Its key aim is to close the gender...more
Since the European Court of Justice (ECJ) declared the “Safe Harbour” agreement—which had permitted U.S. companies to comply with EU restrictions on the transfer of personal data outside the EU—invalid in October 2015,...more
The fast-developing innovations brought by generative artificial intelligence (AI) are hastening calls from industry and government to consider new regulatory frameworks. The EU was in the process of implementing its AI Act,...more
The United States isn’t the only country where gender pay practices have long come under fire for being unfair—with women historically demonstrated as the loser in equal pay battles. The European Union (EU) has grappled with...more
To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more
On 8 September 2021, the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs published a briefing about the report that considered the ethical issues surrounding use of biometric...more
The European Parliament is urging the United States to reform its surveillance laws to pave the way for transfers of personal data between the European Union and the U.S. "For data controllers that fall within the scope of...more
On September 3, 2020, The EU Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (the LIBE Committee), met to discuss the future of future of EU-US personal data flows following the Schrems II decision. In...more
The European Parliament recently issued a resolution directed at the European Commission on its concerns with automated decision-making processes and artificial intelligence. While the EU Parliament addresses several areas of...more
Earlier in 2019, the European Parliament adopted a new EU Whistleblower Directive. To better understand these new rules and their implications we sat down for a discussion with Vigjilenca Abazi, Assistant Professor at...more