How the EU Pay Transparency Directive Reshapes Employer Obligations

CJEU Decision C – 252/21 – Meta Platforms and Others v. Bundeskartellamt or the interaction between Data Protection Law and Competition Law

The CJEU decided in the case concerning Meta that competition authorities can rule on the compliance or non-compliance of the undertaking with the GDPR in the context of a decision on an abuse of domi …

New FDI Law

The long-awaited foreign direct investment (“FDI”) screening legislation has now come into force through Law 164/2023 (the “FDI Law”), which was published in the Official Gazette of Romania on 7 June …

Enforcing the measures provided by the digital service act and what this entails for the economic actors?

Digital Service Act (”DSA”) is a legislation which establishes responsibilities for all the parties involved in the digital field as well as the essential elements of the institution of Digital Servic …

The Ethics Guidelines for trustworthy artificial intelligence and the trust requirements imposed onto the Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a document drafted by the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG). This independent High-Level Expert Group w …

Transfer of personal data from the EU to the UK after the end of the Brexit transition period

On 6th July 2020, the European Commission published a notice to stakeholders regarding the transfer of personal data from the EU to the UK after the end of the transition period, i.e. 31 December 2020 …

Processing of personal data during Covid-19 pandemic

On 19 March 2020, the European Data Protection Board (the EDPB) has adopted a statement on the processing of personal data in the context of the Covid-19 outbreak.  The Statement concerns the pro …

THE FORCE MAJEURE CLAUSE IN THE CONTEXT OF Covid-19 PANDEMIC

During this hard period we are experiencing at the global level, we are challenged in all aspects of our lives regarding health, discipline and even the organisation of near future in a way to adapt t …

Do you know how Brexit will affect your business’s ownership of European Union intellectual property rights?

Even with the little which we know about how Brexit will look and how it will happen, we certainly know that apart from the political social and economic environment which will be affected by Brexit, …

The European Commission and the US shake hands and agree on transatlantic data flow 
and the implementation of EU-US Privacy Shield

Earlier this year in Strasbourg, the European Union together with the United States of America (“USA”) established a new framework for transatlantic data flows referred as – “Privacy Shield”. Privacy …