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29/03/2023
Off­shore Wind in Nor­way – First Round An­nounced
Live-stream­ing from an elec­tric­al, car­bon fibre cata­maran, Nor­we­gi­an Prime Min­is­ter Jo­nas Gahr Støre and Min­is­ter of Pet­ro­leum & En­ergy Ter­je Aasland an­nounced today the long awaited first tender pro­cess...
29/03/2023
Me­dia Bill
Wel­come to CMS’ in­ter­act­ive reg­u­lat­ory track­er where you will find re­sources, links and up-to-date in­form­a­tion on the UK me­dia reg­u­lat­ory land­scape. The Gov­ern­ment has pub­lished its draft of the long-an­ti­cip­ated Me­dia Bill. Do book­mark this page and come back as we will be up­dat­ing and shar­ing com­ment­ary over the com­ing days. Stay tuned!  
29/03/2023
Mo­bile work­ing reg­u­la­tions in the United King­dom
1. Is there any le­gis­la­tion re­lat­ing to work­ing from home in your coun­try? There is cur­rently no spe­cif­ic le­gis­la­tion re­lat­ing to work­ing from home, how­ever the gen­er­al health and safety re­quire­ments...
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28/03/2023
European Par­lia­ment and Coun­cil ready to start ne­go­ti­ations on EU Data...
In Feb­ru­ary 2022 the European Com­mis­sion presen­ted its pro­pos­al for the EU Data Act, which – if ad­op­ted - will in­tro­duce a far-reach­ing leg­al re­gime on ac­cess to and use of non-per­son­al data in the...
28/03/2023
CMS Spe­cial­ist Coun­sel: Pen­sions Reg­u­lat­or In­vest­ig­a­tions
Pen­sions reg­u­lat­ory and crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tions are pres­sur­ised, dis­rupt­ive and come with a high risk. The CMS Pen­sions Team has the ex­per­i­ence and depth of re­source to as­sist quickly and ef­fect­ively...
27/03/2023
Large En­ergy Users – Spring 2023 up­date on en­ergy mar­ket re­forms
Those who de­vel­op, own, op­er­ate, man­age or oc­cupy sites with large or com­plex en­ergy needs are be­ing re­quired to en­gage with the en­ergy sec­tor like nev­er be­fore. This Law-Now con­tin­ues our series fo­cus­sing...
27/03/2023
Em­ploy­ment rates and lim­its - Changes for April 2023
April 2023 will see changes to em­ploy­ment rates and lim­its which are ad­jus­ted an­nu­ally in line with the re­tail prices in­dex. The RPI has ris­en sig­ni­fic­antly over the last year and stat­utory re­dund­ancy...
27/03/2023
Sus­tain­able Tour­ism
Sus­tain­able tour­ism is vi­tal for our eco­nomy, hav­ing been iden­ti­fied in the Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment’s Scot­land's Eco­nom­ic Strategy (2015) as a growth sec­tor where the coun­try can build on ex­ist­ing com­par­at­ive ad­vant­age as well as in­crease pro­ductiv­ity.
24/03/2023
UK gov­ern­ment re­sumes pro­posed re­form of UK data pro­tec­tion laws
On 8 March 2023, the UK gov­ern­ment re­sumed its pro­posed re­form of UK data pro­tec­tion laws with the in­tro­duc­tion to Par­lia­ment of the Data Pro­tec­tion and Di­git­al In­form­a­tion (No. 2) Bill, a re­place­ment...
24/03/2023
Build­ing Safety Act Re­gister opens next month: a step-by-step guide to...
A new Na­tion­al Re­gister of high­er risk build­ings in Eng­land is due to open in April 2023 (the “Re­gister”).  The Re­gister, set up by the new Build­ing Safety Reg­u­lat­or as a con­sequence of the Build­ing...
24/03/2023
CMS UK Tax Dis­putes Di­gest (March 2023)
Wel­come to the March 2023 edi­tion of our UK Tax Dis­putes Di­gest: a high-level sum­mary of key de­vel­op­ments in con­ten­tious tax over the last few months for heads of tax, fin­ance dir­ect­ors, gen­er­al coun­sel...
24/03/2023
CMS ad­vises Brook­field on ac­quis­i­tion of stake in X-ELIO
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS ad­vised Brook­field Re­new­able (Brook­field), one of the world’s largest pub­licly traded, pure-play re­new­able power plat­forms, on its ac­quis­i­tion of a fur­ther 50% stake in glob­al...