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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...
30/05/2023
CMS ad­vises EBRD on 35% in­vest­ment in Ukraine in­dus­tri­al park pro­ject
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS Camer­on McK­enna Nabarro Olswang has as­sisted the European Bank for Re­con­struc­tion and De­vel­op­ment (EBRD) on its ac­quis­i­tion of 35% of the shares in the Lviv M10 in­dus­tri­al park...
26/05/2023
Ukraine launches up­dated elec­tron­ic ver­sion of the Re­gister of Med­ic­al...
In Janu­ary 2023, the Min­istry of Health of Ukraine (MoH) re­vised the Pro­ced­ure for main­tain­ing the re­gister of per­sons re­spons­ible for pla­cing med­ic­al devices, act­ive im­plant­able med­ic­al devices and IVDs...
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...
24/05/2023
Coun­cil of Europe Sum­mit es­tab­lishes re­gister of war dam­age for Ukraine
On 17 May 2023, 41 na­tions joined the En­larged Par­tial Agree­ment on the Re­gister of Dam­age Caused by the Ag­gres­sion of the Rus­si­an Fed­er­a­tion Against Ukraine (ad­op­ted un­der the Res­ol­u­tion of the Com­mit­tee...
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
Tech­no­logy Trans­form­a­tion - Life Sci­ences & Health­care
The Life Sci­ences and Health­care Sec­tor is highly tech­no­logy-driv­en and an in­creas­ingly dy­nam­ic ap­proach is taken when ad­opt­ing busi­ness-crit­ic­al tech­no­lo­gies. This sec­tor’s above-av­er­age up­take in tech­no­logy is re­flec­ted in its pri­or­it­isa­tion of meas­ures against IT fail­ure. However, the sec­tor is of­ten un­der­prepared for tech­no­logy risks, with many busi­nesses still not hav­ing pro­cesses in place to man­age key risks des­pite cur­rent and fu­ture con­cerns around dis­putes arising from this area.This re­port is a deep dive in­to data first pro­duced for the re­port Tech­no­logy Trans­form­a­tion: Man­aging Risks in a Chan­ging Land­scape. This saw over 500 people sur­veyed from mul­tiple in­dus­tries across the world.Here we look in de­tail at the 75 re­spond­ents from the Life Sci­ences and Health­care sec­tor, and their per­spect­ives on the risks as­so­ci­ated with busi­ness-crit­ic­al tech­no­lo­gies, in­clud­ing emer­ging tech­no­lo­gies.Down­load the Tech­no­logy Trans­form­a­tion Life Sci­ences and Health­care re­port now to read about:Drivers of tech­no­logy ad­op­tion in the Life Sci­ences and Health­care sec­torNew risks emer­ging and tra­di­tion­al bar­ri­ers to risk man­age­ment­Cur­rent tech­no­logy risks in the Life Sci­ences and Health­care sec­tor­Fu­ture risks, in­clud­ing IP con­cerns and AIPre­ferred ap­proaches to tech­no­logy dis­pute res­ol­u­tion for the Life Sci­ences and Health­care sec­tor
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 Ukraine
1. In­tro­duc­tion An in­surer has three main op­tions for start­ing its full scope in­sur­ance op­er­a­tions in Ukraine. Those op­tions would be: (i) to es­tab­lish a ‘green­field’ com­pany; (ii) to ac­quire an...