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Nota Bene Episode 102: Examining European Union State Aid in the Face of COVID and Brexit with Jacques Derenne and Robert Klotz
JONES DAY PRESENTS®: EU Mandatory Disclosure Rules (DAC 6)
Nota Bene Episode 81: European Check In: How the EU is Dealing with the Pandemic’s Economic Fallout with Oliver Heinisch
Jones Day Talks: EU's New Foreign Direct Investment Regulations Eye Specific Sectors
On March 13, 2024, the European Parliament adopted the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). It is considered to be the world’s first comprehensive horizontal legal framework for AI. It provides for EU-wide rules on data...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
On January 22, 2024, the pre-final text of the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act ("EU AI Act") – the world's first comprehensive horizontal legal framework for the regulation of AI systems across the EU – leaked...more
Building on the European Security Strategy of June 2023, the European Commission on January 24, 2024, adopted a package of five initiatives aiming to enhance the EU’s economic security. The package contains a far-reaching...more
How do you draft a tax covenant for a corporate sale when the Seller Group is within the scope of a Pillar Two charge? This is an issue that will become increasingly relevant as we approach the Pillar Two start date at the...more
More than 135 jurisdictions since October 2021 have joined a groundbreaking plan to address certain tax challenges of the new digital and global economy. The plan consists of a Two-Pillar Solution to update key rules of the...more
Recent discussions surrounding the EU Artificial Intelligence Act have accelerated as the European Parliament took the Act one step closer to becoming effective law. On June 14, 2023, the Parliament voted for negotiations...more
The Guidelines build on current social, environmental, and technological issues facing businesses following the last update in 2011. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released updated...more
Pursuant to the transposition in Spain of the Council Directive (EU) 2021/514 of 22 March 2021 (so-called “DAC7”) and the implementation of the Model Rules for Reporting by Platform Operators developed by the OECD/G20 BEPS...more
EUROPEAN COMMISSION ADOPTED A PROPOSAL DIRECTIVE ON CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY DUE DILIGENCE - On 23 February 2022, the European Commission (EC) adopted a proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence...more
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/G20 Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE, Pillar 2) Model Rules, published in December 2021, intend to address perceived challenges to long-standing international...more
On November 4, 2021, 137 countries, under the aegis of the OECD, adhered to the Statement on a Two-Pillar Solution to Address the Tax Challenges Arising from the Digitalisation of the Economy. Pillar 1 aims to ensure a better...more
The European Commission (the "Commission") published a draft Directive on 22 December 2021, known as the anti-tax avoidance Directive III ("ATAD III"), aimed at preventing the use of shell companies for tax evasion and...more
The Development: The EU General Court annulled the European Commission's decision in the Apple case, holding that the Commission did not prove that the Irish tax rulings in question gave rise to a selective advantage under EU...more
The EU’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) maintains a list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes; the purpose of which is to contribute to ongoing efforts to promote tax good governance worldwide....more
UK Case Law Developments - More decisions on IR35 - This month has seen two more decisions on whether broadcast presenters providing their services to the BBC and ITV respectively would or would not have been...more
EU developments - European Court rules that withholding tax exemptions under EU Directives can be denied by abuse of rights principle - At the end of February, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued...more
Antitrust and Competition - EU Cartel Damages: Advocate General says that liability in cartel damages cannot be avoided through corporate restructuring - On 6 February 2019, Advocate General Nils Wahl found in his...more
On February 26, 2019 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued the long-awaited judgments on the cases concerning the Danish government withholding tax on dividends and interest paid by Danish companies to...more
Background on the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive - On January 1, 2019, the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (“ATAD”) went into effect for all 28 Member States. ATAD is the European Commission’s response to the relevant Action...more
We set out below a recap of some of the key European and international tax developments to note at the start of 2019. This alert provides a brief summary of the following...more
The Situation: The Member States of the EU have unanimously agreed on a proposed directive establishing new and far-reaching tax reporting obligations for "intermediaries" and taxpayers. The Result: The proposal lays down...more
On March 21, 2018, the European Commission released a draft legislative package for “fair taxation of the digital economy,” which would establish new tax rules for digital business activities within the European Union. This...more
Finance (No. 2) Bill 2017-19 - The first version of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2017-19 was published on 1 December 2017. The majority of the Bill's content had been previously announced at the Autumn 2017 Budget (see...more