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12/20/2024 11:14:13 AM

German Federal Government unveils proposals for modernizing EU competition law

By Tim Schaper Jens Steger Violetta Bourt +2 more...

Competition wish-list for the new Commission suggests better alignment with German Federal Government Recent months have sparked...

12/18/2024 4:48:29 PM

Data protection and training AI models: Deployers must assess whether the models they use were developed lawfully

By Marcus Evans Rosie Nance

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) was asked by the Irish supervisory authority to issue an Opinion under Article 64(2) General...

12/18/2024 4:26:28 PM

Our ultimate (but digestible) guide to EU antitrust for 2025

By Alexandra Rogers Sabine Holinde

An eventful year for competition law developments is drawing to a close. 2024 presented us with a new European Commission (EC), the...

12/18/2024 1:54:08 PM

UK Hydrogen Strategy: December 2024 update

By Alistair Black Georgina O'Sullivan

The UK Government has released its latest update to the UK Hydrogen Strategy, first published in 2021. Our 2021 briefing Will the UK’s...

12/18/2024 10:39:22 AM

Clean Power 2030: The UK's path to a sustainable energy future

By Rob Marsh Georgina O'Sullivan

On 13 December 2024, DESNZ published its much anticipated Clean Power 2030 Action Plan (the Plan), outlining the UK's comprehensive...

12/4/2024 9:25:08 AM

Fashion faux pas! Pierre Cardin and its distributor Ahlers fined for carving up the EU internal market through anticompetitive licensing agreements

By Alexandra Rogers Matej Ovecka

On 28 November 2024, the European Commission (EC) fined French fashion house Pierre Cardin and one of its licensees – Ahlers Group – EUR...

12/2/2024 5:34:15 PM

A brand new approach or business as usual? Executive Vice-President Ribera starts her term as competition chief

By Alexandra Rogers Flupke van den Bogart

The new European Commission (EC) started its five-year term on 1 December 2024. The EU institutions had spent the last six months...

11/29/2024 5:33:59 PM

Name and Shame Round Two: FCA publishes consultation on redrafted proposals

By Katie Stephen Rebecca Dulieu Joe Smallshaw

Yesterday, the FCA published CP24/2, Part 2 in relation to its controversial ‘name and shame’ proposals, having trailed this in oral...

11/26/2024 3:01:08 PM

Investigations and enforcement trends in the Middle East

By Matthew Shanahan Karl Masi Omar Khattab +1 more...

In our fifth episode of the Inside Investigations podcast series, Middle East Head of Financial Services Regulatory, Matthew Shanahan,...

11/26/2024 10:15:29 AM

Revised Product Liability Directive (introducing rules on strict liability for AI and other software) entered in the EU's statute book

By Marcus Evans Lucy Bruce Jones Andrew Swarbrick +1 more...

Directive (EU) 2024/2853 on liability for defective products (the Revised Product Liability Directive) was published in the Official...

11/26/2024 9:10:03 AM

Perspectives from Dubai Arbitration Week 2024: Renewable energy projects in the emerging markets - Avoiding and resolving disputes

By Aarti Thadani Prakruthi Gowda

As we start to move away from the summer months in Dubai, the attention turns to Dubai Arbitration Week 2024, which took place from 11 –...

11/20/2024 1:05:47 PM

CP24/21 – significant rather than fundamental change

By Jonathan Herbst

Regarding CP24/21 relating to investment research payment optionality for fund managers, the punchline is that the FCA is going to take...