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01/06/2023
State aid: fol­low­ing ap­peals by Ry­anair, the Gen­er­al Court of the EU an­nuls...
On 11 May 2023, the Gen­er­al Court of the EU can­celled two European Com­mis­sion de­cisions au­thor­iz­ing State aid in the form of cap­it­al in­jec­tions for the air­lines SAS and Deutsche Lufthansa, in par­tic­u­lar...
01/06/2023
CJEU provides clar­ity on data pro­tec­tion: judg­ments on right to com­pens­a­tion...
CJEU judg­ment on right to com­pens­a­tion for non-ma­ter­i­al dam­age un­der GDPR (Case C-300/21)On 4 May 2023, the CJEU de­livered a judge­ment con­cern­ing the right to com­pens­a­tion fol­low­ing an in­fringe­ment of...
31/05/2023
UPC – the “Long-arm” jur­is­dic­tion
UPC Long-arm jur­is­dic­tion­With the UPC set to open its doors on 1 June 2023, just how far might its reach ex­tend?Un­less a European pat­ent has been op­ted out of the UPC, the na­tion­al courts and the UPC...
26/05/2023
Per­form­ing ser­vices in a de­cent­ral­ised man­ner un­der Mi­CAR
At the end of April 2023, the European par­lia­ment de­cided on a uni­form reg­u­la­tion of crypto as­sets across the EU by vot­ing on the MiCA reg­u­la­tion (i.e. mar­kets in crypto-as­sets). The in­ten­ded in­nov­a­tions...
25/05/2023
North Sea Strikes and Force Ma­jeure
The latest in a series of strikes by oil & gas work­ers in the North Sea con­tin­ues to test the op­er­a­tion and ef­fic­acy of force ma­jeure (“FM”) pro­vi­sions in oil and gas in­dustry con­tracts.There is no...
24/05/2023
De­Fi and MiCA: How much de­cent­ral­isa­tion is enough?
The European Uni­on Coun­cil has re­cently ad­op­ted a reg­u­la­tion on Mar­kets in Crypto-As­sets (MiCA) that ap­plies to crypto-as­sets, their is­suers and ser­vice pro­viders, and cov­ers a range of ser­vices that...
22/05/2023
Europe-wide ana­lys­is on the fifth an­niversary of the GDPR re­veals data...
European data pro­tec­tion au­thor­it­ies im­posed fines totalling over 2.7 bil­lion euros in more than 1,500 pub­licly known cases for vi­ol­a­tions of the Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion, which has been in...
22/05/2023
The new Pub­lic Con­tracts Code - Part 2
21/05/2023
GDPR En­force­ment Track­er Re­port
A warm wel­come... ...to the fourth edi­tion of the GDPR En­force­ment Track­er Re­port – the an­niversary edi­tion cel­eb­rat­ing five years of GDPR.In the five years since the GDPR be­came ap­plic­able its power­ful frame­work for im­pos­ing fines has cer­tainly helped to raise aware­ness and en­cour­age com­pli­ance ef­forts – just as the European le­gis­lat­or in­ten­ded. At the same time, the risk of fines of up to EUR 20 mil­lion or 4% of a com­pany’s glob­al an­nu­al turnover can also lead to fear and re­luct­ance or ig­nor­ance about com­pli­ance is­sues.We still be­lieve that facts are bet­ter than fear.This is why we con­tinu­ously up­date our list of pub­licly known fines in the GDPR  En­force­ment Track­er and star­ted the GDPR En­force­ment Track­er Re­port as an an­nu­al deep dive ap­proach to provide you with more in­sights in­to the world of GDPR fines.As in the three pre­vi­ous edi­tions, the GDPR En­force­ment Track­er Re­port starts with the Ex­ec­ut­ive Sum­mary (also avail­able as a PDF ver­sion), fol­lowed by the “Num­bers and Fig­ures” sec­tion and the “En­force­ment In­sights per busi­ness sec­tor” (also in­clud­ing the over­arch­ing em­ploy­ment cat­egory. The “En­force­ment In­sights per coun­try” provide back­ground on the spe­cif­ic en­force­ment frame­work un­der na­tion­al law. Some re­marks on our meth­od­o­logy can be found at the very end of the re­port.
19/05/2023
Ten things every in­surer should know in Italy
1. In­tro­duc­tion In­sur­ance activ­ity can be un­der­taken in Italy by i) an Itali­an in­sur­ance com­pany that has met all the con­di­tions set by the ap­plic­able Itali­an law and reg­u­la­tions and that has been ad­mit­ted...
18/05/2023
European Com­mis­sion's pub­lic con­sulta­tion on the ex­ten­sion of op­er­at­ing...
The European Com­mis­sion has re­cently sub­mit­ted for pub­lic con­sulta­tion its draft com­mu­nic­a­tion ex­tend­ing the trans­ition­al peri­od for op­er­at­ing aid that can be gran­ted to re­gion­al air­ports un­der the 2014...
18/05/2023
5G reg­u­la­tion and law in Italy
1. What is the state of 5G de­ploy­ment in your coun­try? 5G is already de­ployed in the densest parts of main cit­ies, but struc­tur­al bar­ri­ers still lim­it its ex­pan­sion in the coun­tryside. Five com­mu­nic­a­tions...
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