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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
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On 14 February 2025, the EU’s securities and markets regulator, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), launched a Common Supervisory Action (CSA) with EU Member State National Competent Authorities (NCAs), in...more
COMPETITION - Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11805 - Unicredit / CNP Unicredit Vita) Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11834 - GTCR / Insight Partners / Tricentis)...more
Now that the EU AI Act has come into force, companies deploying high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the European Union (EU) must prepare to navigate a complex landscape of new obligations by 2 August 2027. This...more
Antitrust and Competition - The European Commission to Take Action to Address Territorial Supply Constraints - On 24 May 2024, the EU Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, announced that the European Commission...more
Electronic identification and trust services (eIDAS) refer to a range of services that include verifying the identity of individuals and businesses online and verifying the authenticity of electronic documents. Since 2014,...more
Introduction - On 5 March, the European Commission (Commission) adopted the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS) and proposed a regulation establishing the European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP)....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 world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) regulatory framework is “a step closer” to becoming law, the European Parliament recently announced. Following the European Commission’s 2021 draft proposal, a draft negotiating...more
Manufacturers and other stakeholders contemplating the use of AI-enabled products and services should be mindful of new rules proposed by the European Commission (EC) to address product liability claims related to AI systems....more
The year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been marked by the development of a multi-jurisdictional, multi-agency sanctions regime in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union. Although coordination...more
The European Commission has published its long awaited and leaked proposals for a once-in-a-generation revision of the EU general pharmaceutical legislation (GPL)....more
ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION - European Commission Launches a Public Consultation on the Draft Revised Market Definition Notice - On 8 November 2022, the European Commission launched a public consultation aimed at gathering...more
ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION - The Commission’s New Guidance Creates Legal Uncertainty for Merger Control in the EU - On 26 March 2021, the Commission published a new Guidance on the application of the EU upward case referral...more
On 21 April 2021, the European Commission unveiled a proposal for an EU Artificial Intelligence Regulation (“Proposal”). The Proposal recognizes that AI offers significant benefits and opportunities for the EU market, but...more
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency ("MHRA") has published new guidance (the "Guidance") on how medical devices will be regulated in Great Britain ("GB") (England, Wales and Scotland) and in Northern...more
Prepare for global data class actions has been moved. In the wake of the COVID-19 epidemic, there is an unfortunate increase in the cyber-security risks businesses may face. Our global team will help you best prepare for the...more
The United Kingdom (UK) left the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020. While the EU and the UK lastly agreed on a withdrawal agreement and thus can avoid an unregulated Brexit, specific rules for trading UK goods on the EU...more
The UK will no longer be a Member State of the European Union (the “EU”) as of 11 p.m. on 31 January 2020 (“Exit Day”). A ‘transition period’ will run from Exit Day until 11 p.m. on 31 December 2020 (the “Transition Period”)....more
Below is a summary of the main developments in US and EU corporate governance and securities law and certain financial markets regulation developments since our last update in July 2019. ...more
Fulfilling its mandate under the European Commission's FinTech Action Plan to map the current authorization and licensing approaches for innovative FinTech business models in Europe, the European Banking Authority has...more
The MDR and other recent developments in the health care regulatory landscape pose new opportunities and challenges for medical software companies and investors in digital health in the United Kingdom. Although the regulatory...more
We had been following on this blog the heated debates around the proposed EU Copyright Directive. These debates now belong to history since on March 27, 2019, the European parliament adopted the Directive with 348 votes...more
On 6 February 2019 the House of Commons and House of Lords approved The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (Patent SI), which, if it is signed into law, will come into force on Brexit day (i.e. 29 March 2019 or...more
On 1 February 2019, the European Commission published a new Q&A document to give further guidance on the Notice to stakeholders-withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU rules in the field of industrial products (“the Notice”)....more
On 8 January 2019 the FCA published a consultation paper, CP19/2, which sets out details of the financial services contracts regime (FSCR) and the rules the FCA proposes should apply to firms during the regime....more