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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 …
UK after BREXIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9bGgvP2V-0&ab_channel=TVPWorld
Strength in numbers – including temperature figures
There is a saying in English “there is nothing new under the Sun”. There is also the Romanian saying “nu e nimic nou sub soare” but judging by what my friends tell me, these two phrases have similar m …
Let’s talk about the weather…
My Romanian friends know that as a British person, talking about the weather comes easily to me. This has been particularly so after what, for me at least, has been a summer of lovely weather in Bucha …
The article which is overtaken by events before publication – hopefully…
Looking back over my 25 years of working as a commercial lawyer in Romania, I notice how there are cycles of economic and investment interest in particular sectors of the economy. Ten years ago, my co …
What goes around, comes around – wind and other renewable energy projects return to activity in Romania
Looking back over my 25 years of working as a commercial lawyer in Romania, I notice how there are cycles of economic and investment interest in particular sectors of the economy. Ten years ago, my co …
Are we nearly there yet?
Thirteen months ago – not long after the UK had left the EU and the transitional period had started – we took the decision to send the staff of the British Romanian Chamber of Commerce to work from ho …