To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more
7/26/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Digital Communications ,
Digital Marketplace ,
Digital Services ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
European Parliament ,
Fake Reviews ,
Germany ,
IP Addresses ,
Online Safety for Children ,
Political Advertising ,
Right to Repair ,
UK
To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more
4/6/2023
/ Advertising Standards Authority ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Cyber Threats ,
DATA Act ,
Digital Service Providers ,
Digital Services ,
Duty To Repair ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Parliament ,
False Advertising ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Greenwashing ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Misleading Statements ,
Network and Information Security Directive ,
Popular ,
Research and Development ,
Tax Credits ,
Technology ,
Websites ,
Withdrawal Agreement
To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more
1/10/2023
/ Compliance ,
Consumer Rights Directive ,
Content Marketing ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cyber Incident Reporting ,
Cybersecurity ,
Designated Contract Markets (DCMs) ,
Digital Communications ,
Digital Markets Strategy ,
Digital Services ,
Enforcement ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Harmonization Rules ,
Member State ,
Minors ,
OFCOM ,
Online Platforms ,
Popular ,
Risk Assessment ,
Targeted Digital Advertising ,
UK ,
Whistleblowers
To help organisations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more
10/12/2022
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Competition ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Marketplace ,
Digital Service Providers ,
Digital Services ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Germany ,
Net Neutrality ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
OFCOM ,
Online Platforms ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Telecommunications ,
UK
It has been a busy summer for followers of the various European regulatory proposals to introduce a regulatory framework for the use of artificial intelligence in Europe. The EU is trying to resolve internal differences in...more
To help organisations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison & Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main European digital regulatory and...more
4/11/2022
/ Compliance ,
Content Marketing ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
DATA Act ,
Designated Contract Markets (DCMs) ,
Digital Communications ,
Digital Markets Strategy ,
Digital Rights ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Germany ,
Internet of Things ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
OFCOM ,
Online Gaming ,
Online Platforms ,
Popular ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Right to Repair ,
The Copyright Act ,
UK Parliament ,
Video Games
For many years, the regulation of digital markets has been a key priority in Europe. In 2015, the European Commission committed the EU to the creation of a digital single market – and that commitment spawned a series of...more
4/26/2021
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Copyright ,
Digital Goods ,
Digital Marketplace ,
Digital Services ,
Digital Single Market ,
Electronic Communications ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Geo-Blocking ,
Popular ,
UK ,
UK Brexit ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
The European Commission has issued guidance on how the EU public procurement framework can and should be used during the COVID-19 crisis.
While the Commission has not relaxed any of the existing EU procurement rules, it has...more
A White Paper on Artificial Intelligence from the European Commission provides insight on how governments might change product safety and liability rules to address the issues arising from AI systems.
Five years ago, the...more
The European Union has laid out a strategy to promote the growth of Artificial Intelligence technology in Europe. As so often with EU initiatives, the initiatives designed to implement the strategy are long on vision but...more
Linear TV and radio services are increasingly being consumed via the internet. Technical developments allowing the on-demand consumption of audio and audio-visual content on different user devices have also changed viewer...more
Geo-blocking is the practice of preventing internet users in one jurisdiction from accessing services elsewhere based on the user’s geographic location. The European Commission wants to eliminate geo-blocking within the EU –...more
The European Union (EU) has reached a provisional agreement on a proposed new Regulation on EU cross-border parcel delivery services. The European Commission’s aim is to make pricing and tariffs more transparent and give...more
The European Union (“EU”) has long had a focus on consumer protection of EU residents. A new proposed EU regulation is set to improve the cross-border enforcement regime for consumer protection legislation. The new rules will...more
Every two years, the European Union updates the threshold values that trigger the need for a regulated public procurement exercise across Europe. The financial thresholds effective from January 1, 2018 have now been...more
As part of its Digital Single Market strategy, the European Commission has identified the issue of combatting illegal content online as a key challenge for online platforms. It has now released guidance to online platforms...more
The EU has published a review of its vaunted Digital Single Market strategy, mid-way through the current five-year term of the European Commission. “On track, with room for improvement” summarises the official...more
The implications of Britain’s decision in June 2016 to leave the EU are gradually becoming clearer. In the area of government procurement, a paper by the European Parliament has highlighted the various models available to UK...more
Regulators in Europe have continued to publish guidance notes designed to encourage the take-up of cloud computing services. As we report in this Alert, the views of the UK financial services regulator on the risks and...more
In May 2015, the European Commission announced its Digital Single Market Strategy to accelerate the creation of a digital single market (DSM) across the EU. The EU’s aim is to broaden access to e-commerce, media and...more
8/15/2016
/ Burden of Proof ,
Competition ,
Consumer Rights Directive ,
CPC Regulation ,
Cross-Border ,
Digital Goods ,
Digital Single Market ,
Draft Digital Contract Directive ,
Draft Online Goods Directive ,
E-Commerce ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Geo-Blocking ,
International Harmonization ,
Member State ,
Online Platforms ,
Personal Data ,
Product Defects ,
Shipping ,
Telecommunications ,
UK ,
Value-Added Tax (VAT)
The European Commission has announced new draft laws that would give consumers new remedies where digital content supplied online is defective or not as described by the seller....more
On 6 May 2015, the European Commission announced its plans to accelerate the creation of a digital single market across the EU. The new EU strategy will have a significant impact on sectors such as e-commerce, media and...more
In November 2012, the European Commission published a Communication on Cloud Computing intended to ‘unleash the potential of cloud computing in Europe.’ Twenty months later, the Commission has begun to deliver on its key...more
In November 2012, we wrote an Alert about the European Commission’s Communication on Cloud Computing intended, it said, to “… unleash the potential of cloud computing in Europe”. Sceptics were doubtful that the cloud...more
In November 2012, we wrote an Alert about the European Commission’s Communication on Cloud Computing intended, it said, to “... unleash the potential of cloud computing in Europe”. Sceptics were doubtful that the cloud...more