Earlier in the year the European Commission issued new REACH legislation concerning data-sharing, which can be found here. By way of brief reminder, the EU has a comprehensive regulatory regime concerning chemicals known as REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of CHemicals), which was set up under a very complex 2006 EU Regulation that entered Read more »
WP29 EU GDPR 2016 action plan announced
We’ve looked in earlier alerts at the progress of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (known by some as GDPR) which is getting closer to becoming law. The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (“WP29”) recently issued an official statement setting out its action plan for the implementation of the GDPR. EU political agreement was Read more »
Predictions for 2016
Each year in January we sit down and reflect what are likely to be the compliance challenges of the year ahead. We share this information with our clients to help them predict their likely compliance challenges and we thought it would be interesting this year to share some of our thoughts more widely. We have Read more »
New EU Data Protection Regulation: 5 important points video
The EU is in the process of changing its existing data protection rules. We strongly recommend that businesses prepare now as the changes go well beyond an upgrade. Many deals signed now are likely to be covered by the new rules and most businesses will need to start now to be ready in time. Read more »
Biggest challenges for 2016
In this short video produced in association with The Risk Factory, Cordery lawyer Jonathan Armstrong introduces what he sees as the biggest challenges for data protection compliance ahead in 2016 and what SMEs need to do now to help them comply. We have also made a series of short videos grouping some of the compliance trends that Read more »
End-of-January deadline post-Safe Harbor enforcement
What’s this all about? As you will be well aware, the European Court ruled in the Schrems case last autumn 2015 that the EU US Safe Harbor Decision was invalid (see here for our earlier alert and a short film update). The EU and the US have been in discussion to try and agree a Read more »
ICO Takes action against Alzheimer’s Society
2016 may turn out to be a year of real change in data protection in Europe. We have written extensively in 2015 about the coming of age of data protection with cases like Schrems, Weltimmo and Vidal-Hall. Its also likely that the new EU Data Protection Regulation will reach final agreement soon too. With all of these Read more »
EU cyber security rules agreed
Political agreement was recently officially reported by the EU as having been reached at the highest EU level on EU rules on cyber security. As news headlines are constantly bringing to our attention, IT security breaches and cyber attacks in many shapes and forms have reached a phenomenal level and present a continuing major global Read more »
Political agreement announced on new European General Data Protection Regulation: Christmas come early?
The European Commission announced this week that the trilogue negotiations between the European Commission, Council and Parliament have resulted in a political agreement. This is the first stage in the implementation of the Regulation. The consolidated text is now waiting for confirmation from the Member States in the Council and a further vote by the full Parliament Read more »
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