What’s this all about? The Online Safety Act (“the Act”) is new UK legislation which significantly regulates online content, notably: illegal content; harmful content for children (but which is not necessarily illegal); and, fraudulent advertising. The regulatory approach is to impose various duties on online service providers. These FAQs look at some of the highlights Read more »
UK Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 Now Passed – Failure to Prevent Fraud Now A Criminal Offence
What is this about? The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (“the Act”) has now been passed by the UK Parliament, some provisions of which are now in force (as at the date of this article) whilst others will come into force later (some sooner than others). This article looks at some select highlights Read more »
FAQs: EU DORA Regulation increases EU Operational Resilience Requirements
Introduction One of the most talked about topics currently in legal, financial services and cyber security circles is on the implementation of DORA, or to give it its formal name the Digital Operational Resilience Act Amending Certain Directives as Regards Digital Operational Resilience for the Financial Sector (the Amending Directive). DORA entered into force on Read more »
EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) FAQs
What’s this all about? The EU recently adopted a so-called “Adequacy Decision” for the US (“Commission Implementing Decision of 10.7.2023 pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the adequate level of protection of personal data under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework”) which has set up a system for Read more »
Data Protection Due Diligence in Transactions FAQs
Introduction Data protection/privacy rules play a prominent role in merger and acquisitions transactions. The degree of data protection compliance in a transaction could have an effect on the final price or even make or break a deal, or lead to unwelcome surprises later on. The ICO’s enforcement case against Marriott International Inc. where in 2020 Read more »
EU Whistleblowing Legislation FAQs
We first published these FAQs in June 2020 and we have made some changes to reflect more recent developments Introduction In 2019 the EU introduced a new law to enable whistleblowers to report about EU law irregularities – this law also harmonises the minimum level of protection available to whistleblowers across the EU. These new Read more »
Client Alert: Driving Compliance: Car Tech and Data Protection FAQs
We first published this article on 20 May 2020 and we are updating it to take account of the EDPB’s revised guidance and some other recent developments. Introduction Vehicle technology (often called car tech) is becoming increasingly sophisticated, with GPS trackers, inbuilt software, in-car cameras and other devices and apps gathering large amounts of data Read more »
UK Post-Brexit & Product Regulatory Compliance: Liability, Safety, Withdrawal & Conformity
What’s this all about? A key highlighted feature of the deal between the UK and the EU in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (“TCA”) is that as of 1 January 2021 there will be zero tariffs or quotas applied to trade in goods between the UK and the EU (where those goods satisfy so-called “rules Read more »
UK REACH – Post-Brexit & Chemicals Regulatory Compliance FAQs
What’s this about? “Full” Brexit has taken place as it were as of 1 January 2021 affecting most regulatory areas including chemicals regulatory compliance. These FAQs are about the UK’s post-Brexit chemicals regulatory compliance regime. What’s EU REACH? The EU’s chemicals regulatory regime is called REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of CHemicals) which entered Read more »
EU “Class-Action” Rules FAQs
Introduction The EU recently issued rules concerning consumer class-actions, which in EU terms are called “representative actions”, to be brought by designated entities against organisations which have infringed EU law. It is for the (27) EU Member States to implement these new rules (“Directive (EU) 2020/1828 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Read more »