Life with GDPR - Clearview AI Redux
Energy Horizons: Developing solar in Italy – key insights and practical market considerations
JONES DAY TALKS®: Private Antitrust Litigation in Italy
Jones Day Talks: Italy Embraces Foreign investment but Maintains Oversight
The Italian annual market and competition law - recently published in the Italian official Gazette - provides, among other things, for an amendment in relation to the rules on direct compensation system for motor liability...more
On 28 January 2022, IVASS launched a public consultation on a draft regulation providing rules related to the obligation to communicate to IVASS data and information on non-life premiums collected in Italy by insurance...more
On 23 December 2021 IVASS published a set of clarifications regarding a number of Italian provisions governing the insurance distribution activity. Following a series of meetings held between the Italian insurance...more
The latest Consultations launched by the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the Bank of Italy on regulatory capital requirements for banks may lead to opportunities for alternative lenders, as traditional financiers may...more
With the Decrees of the President of the Council of Ministers (“DPCM”) no. 179 and 180 dated December 30, 2020 (effective from January 14, 2021), the Legislator has significantly innovated the Golden Power regulation set...more
Lo scorso 5 dicembre 2019, la Banca d’Italia ha pubblicato un nuovo provvedimento che regola gli obblighi dei soggetti autorizzati alla prestazione dei servizi e delle attività di investimento e alla gestione collettiva del...more
The use of hemp for the production of foodstuffs is contemplated by the Law No. 242 of 02 December 2016 (Law 242/2016), bearing provisions for the promotion of the hemp cultivation and of the agro-industrial hemp chain in...more
Q1/ Applicable legislation - (a) Have the requirements of the GDPR been addressed by introducing a new law, or by updating existing legislation? Old legislation has been updated....more
In a recent judgment (No. 12777/2019 published on 22 March 2019, the "IBLOR Judgment"), the Fifth Criminal Section of Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation ruled the illegality of a fronting structure, where an Italian licensed...more
The Situation: After joining the Blockchain Partnership and setting up a task force dedicated to digital innovation, Italy enacted a set of rules establishing an overarching legal foundation for the validity and...more
In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal European, US and selected international governance and securities law developments of interest to European corporates. ...more
In data 1° ottobre 2018 è entrata in vigore nell’Unione Europea la Direttiva (UE) 2016/97 del 20 gennaio 2016 (nota come Insurance Distribution Directive – IDD, di seguito la Direttiva) che apporta rilevanti modifiche alla...more
On 16 June Legislative Decree No. 68/2018 aimed at implementing the IDD (the “Legislative Decree“) was published on the Italian Official Journal. ...more
On 8 June IVASS launched three public consultations on its draft regulations providing for secondary level legislation regarding insurance and reinsurance distribution, pre-contractual transparency requirements to be met in...more
By decision No. 10892 published on 7 May 2018, the Italian Supreme Court ruled on an appeal brought by the Ministry of Health against a decision of the appellate Court of Padua in a case concerning the administrative...more
In a letter to the market published by IVASS yesterday, the Italian insurance regulator expressly clarified that the scope of application of the guidelines set out in a previous letter to the market also includes EU insurance...more
1. QUADRO NORMATIVO REGOLAMENTARE - Il D.Lgs. 25 maggio 2017, n. 90, recependo la c.d. "IV Direttiva Antiriciclaggio", ovvero la Direttiva (UE) 2015/849, ha sostanzialmente e significativamente innovato il D.Lgs. 21...more
Con delibera del Consiglio n. 206 del 1° marzo 2018, l'Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione ("ANAC") ha definitivamente approvato l'aggiornamento delle Linee Guida n. 4 recanti "Procedure per l'affidamento dei contratti pubblici...more
The Italian Insurance Regulator ("IVASS") and the Italian Competition Authority ("AGCM") have taken coordinated actions against certain clauses contained in health and accidents insurance policies that cover permanent...more
Postponement of IDD implementing provisions - On 14 February the EU Council agreed the text of the proposed Directive to postpone the deadline for the transposition into Member States of Directive 2016/97 on insurance...more
Law no. 179 of November 30th, 2017 (the “Law” or the “Law 179/2017”) – entitled “Provisions for the protection of whistleblowers who report offences or irregularities which have come to their attention in the context of a...more
IVASS has just published a letter to the market addressed to Italian and EU insurance intermediaries and undertakings addressing the level of awareness of traditional intermediaries about the risks involved in the use of new...more
A seguito della pubblicazione in Gazzetta Ufficiale della Legge 30 novembre 2017, n. 179 recante "Disposizioni per la tutela degli autori di segnalazioni di reati o irregolarità di cui siano venuti a conoscenza nell'ambito di...more
Fast track for orphan diseases and rare forms of cancers - By Ministerial Decree of 7 September 2017 (DM 7 September 2017), published in the Italian Official Journal on 2nd November2017, the Ministry of Health enacted new...more
Acquisition and leveraged finance is a fascinating area for lawyers, both inherently and because of its potential for complexity arising out of the requirements of the acquisition process, cross-border issues, regulation and...more