Nota Bene Episode 123: Europe Q2 Check In - Brexit Updates and Antitrust Laws in the Digital Economy with Oliver Heinisch
Nota Bene Episode 115: European Q1 Check In: Brexit, Digital Markets Act, and the New Europe with Oliver Heinisch
Podcast: Digital Taxation—Implications for EU Technology Companies
The distinction between owning and licensing digital goods has become blurred in an era increasingly dominated by digital transactions. While traditionally consumers purchasing physical items such as books and video games...more
On September 10, 2024, the European Commission (EC) offices in charge of the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)—the European body composed of all EU data protection...more
The Situation: On September 17, 2024, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled her new proposed College of Commissioners and announced key European Union ("EU") policy priorities for the next five years....more
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
The EU’s DSA, which regulates online intermediaries and platforms in digital space, came into effect in February 2024. The purpose of the DSA is to make the online environment safer, fairer, and more transparent by imposing...more
NETWORK AND INFORMATION SECURITY 2 DIRECTIVE (NIS2) - WHO WILL BE IN SCOPE? Operators of essential and important services across various sectors including energy, transport, banking, health, medical devices, chemicals...more
The European Union Digital Services Act (DSA) now applies to all digital “intermediary services” that provide users with access to online goods, services, and content. The DSA took effect on November 16, 2022, and regulates a...more
The European Commission’s Digital Services Act (DSA) came into effect for very large online platforms and very large online search engines last year and became fully applicable on Saturday 17 February 2024. As online service...more
It has been some time already since the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation 2022/2065, DSA) was published, and since then, the discussions about Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines...more
Midnight on July 3, 2023, heralded the deadline for potential gatekeepers to notify the European Commission (EC) as to whether they meet the thresholds for gatekeepers set out in Article 3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA)....more
Updated June 2023 - The BCLP Data Privacy & Security team is tracking EU law developments relevant to data and cyber security. This tracker summarizes the effect and status of the following: the Digital Services Act, the...more
On 25 April 2023, the same day on which the European Commission (EC) adopted its first designation decisions under its Digital Services Act (DSA), the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament published its long-awaited Digital Markets,...more
Following a public consultation period, the European Commission has published the Regulation implementing its Digital Markets Act, with two major text changes from the original act....more
Following publication in the EU Official Journal, the Digital Markets Act (DMA, Regulation (EU) 2022/1925) officially entered into force on 1 November 2022. The DMA introduces new rules for the digital economy. In...more
The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a key part of the European Union’s (EU) digital regulation strategy, which seeks to modernise legal frameworks and create a safer and more open digital environment. The DSA entered into...more
The Digital Services Act (DSA) entered into force on November 16, 2022. This new European regulation builds on the Electronic Commerce Directive to strengthen the moderation obligations of online platforms regarding illegal...more
La Ley de Servicios Digitales de la Unión Europea es un reglamento europeo (aprobado hace pocos meses) que regula el ecosistema de las plataformas de intermediación de internet. Será de aplicación de manera escalonada en el...more
The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on November 16, 2022. The DSA creates comprehensive new obligations for online platforms, introduces protections for users' rights online, and places digital...more
On 16 November, Ofcom (the UK communications regulator) published the “Media plurality and online news” report, which examines the influence of online intermediaries (including social media platforms, search engines and news...more
The Digital Markets Act aims to complement the enforcement of competition law to ensure that markets where “Gatekeepers” are present—including online search engines, online social networking, video sharing platform services,...more
Ce qui change : le Digital Services Act (Règlement (UE) 2022/2065, « DSA ») est entré en vigueur le 16 novembre 2022 et sera applicable à compter du 17 Février 2024. Le champ d’application de cette règlementation est...more
One of the European Union’s major pieces of legislation in the digital era, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), entered into force on 1 November 2022. It introduces ex-ante regulation—setting the ground rules for what is and is...more
On 27 October 2022, the Digital Services Act was published in the EU Official Journal as Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, with the aim to fully harmonize the rules on the safety of online services and the dissemination of illegal...more