Compliance Perspectives: The EU Whistleblower Directive
The European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD or Directive) entered into force on July 25, 2024, establishing a framework for companies to address risks and adverse impacts on human rights and...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 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act is set to become the world’s first comprehensive regulation on AI. After extensive negotiations, the European Parliament, Commission, and Council reached a political agreement on the AI...more
The European Union (EU) is leading the global charge with AI regulations. U.S. companies are not beyond their regulatory reach, however, and should be preparing their AI risk mitigation efforts accordingly....more
On 24 March 2024, the European Parliament approved the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) with a vote of 374 in favour (compared with 235 votes against and 19 abstentions)....more
The European Parliament has now approved the “Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive,” which will apply to both EU companies and to non-EU companies doing business in the European Union. (There is a phased...more
On March 13, 2024, European Union policymakers finally passed the long anticipated Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) legislation, providing employers with...more
The proposed regulation would ban forced labour-made products from the EU market, affecting companies’ supply chains and requiring compliance checks. On 5 March 2024, the European Parliament and European Council...more
The world officially has its first comprehensive set of major regulations specifically targeting artificial intelligence: the European Union's AI Act. The AI Act was first introduced in 2021, garnering political consensus...more
Yesterday, March 13, 2024, the European Parliament approved the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”), a sweeping AI governance framework which presents the first comprehensive law in the world aimed at ensuring AI...more
Who will play the leading role if we make a new series about AI? If you interview Steven Spielberg, Sundar Pichai, and Sam Altman, you might receive three distinct ideas ranging from the 2001 classic "AI: Artificial...more
On March 13, 2024, the EU AI Act received its final assent from the EU Parliament with 523 votes in favor, 46 against and 49 abstentions, bringing it one step closer to adoption. Minor linguistic changes are still to be...more
The EU Parliament’s committees for internal market and civil liberties overwhelmingly adopted the final text of the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). The European Parliament will now vote on the AI Act in a formality that...more
Today, on Monday, March 20, 2023, Regulation (EU) 2023/607 of the European Parliament and of the Council of March 15, 2023, amending Regulations (EU) 2017/745 and (EU) 2017/746 as regards transitional provisions for certain...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive expands the existing sustainability reporting requirements and brings more companies under its scope. On 21 June 2022, the European Parliament and European Council reached...more
The proposed Digital Services Act will require online services (including social media platforms, search engines, and marketplaces) to implement policies and procedures aimed at increasing transparency and combatting illegal...more
On March 10, 2021, the European Parliament approved a legislative measure by an overwhelming 504-79 majority that paves the way for a landmark set of regulations setting a corporate duty of care regarding environmental...more
Almost one year after its adoption by the European Parliament, more than half of the EU’s 27 Member States have started transposing the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive into national law. Now, little over 14 months...more
Earlier in 2019, the European Parliament adopted a new EU Whistleblower Directive. To better understand these new rules and their implications we sat down for a discussion with Vigjilenca Abazi, Assistant Professor at...more