In 2025, Life Sciences and Health Care (LS&HC) companies face rapidly evolving regulatory paradigms that create transactional risks and require daily monitoring. After more than 70 national elections in 2024, the dust hasn’t...more
8/25/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Clinical Trials ,
Cybersecurity ,
Digital Health ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Genetic Materials ,
Government Agencies ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Innovative Technology ,
Life Sciences ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Public Health ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Supply Chain ,
Trump Administration
When initially proposing the reform of the Union Customs Code (UCC), the EU Commission had planned for an extensive implementation period, suggesting that the use of the EU Customs Data Hub as one of the key pillars of the...more
What happened? The European Commission announced on Friday, 20 June 2025 that it is considering scrapping its proposed directive to introduce substantiation and certification requirements for environmental claims and labels,...more
The European Commission's new efforts to boost the EU's competitiveness through the Clean Industrial Deal and sweeping regulatory simplification have garnered significant attention. At the same time, circularity remains a...more
A growing divergence in sustainable investing approaches is emerging between Europe and the United States, with UK and European pension funds increasingly reinforcing their ESG commitments, while many U.S. asset managers...more
There is an ever-increasing number of consumers who are following a vegetarian or even vegan diet – and with this comes a wide range of vegetarian and vegan foods that can now be found in many supermarkets and restaurants....more
As the festive season heralds lights on storefronts and fills shopping carts around the world, the retail and luxury sectors find themselves navigating unprecedented change. Consumer expectations among various demographics...more
Recently, the Parliament and the Council, under the leadership of the Belgian Council Presidency, have been able to reach a provisional agreement on a final text for a new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation within a...more
The EU is stepping up its fight against greenwashing and empowers consumers for the green transition with a new Directive on empowering consumers for the green transition through better protection against unfair practices and...more
EU is about to take a stance with respect to greenwashing with a new Directive on empowering consumers for the green transition through better protection against unfair practices and better information. This new Directive...more
At the end of 2023, the EU Parliament and the EU Council each adopted their positions on the EU Commission's proposal for a new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. The Commission's proposal had already given rise to a...more
At the end of June, the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, nukleare Sicherheit und Verbraucherschutz – “BMUV”)...more
The European Commission has presented its long-awaited proposal for a Directive on substantiating environmental claims on March 22, 2023 which is intended to apply to all voluntary green claims covering not only texts, but...more
Just before the start of the year, the European Commission introduced a Proposal for a Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste (PPWR) which will repeal the existing Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD) and...more
Talk of a draft proposal regarding Green Claims (“the Proposal” or “Green Claims Directive Proposal”) has emerged earlier this year. As a part of the EU’s new Circular Economy Action Plan and New Consumer Agenda, the proposal...more
The three governing parties in Germany had already included the plan to legalise cannabis in their coalition agreement of 2021. After the cabinet agreed by resolution on a key points paper (“the Paper”) on this topic, which...more
On September 13, 2022, the European Parliament voted to adopt a regulation on deforestation-free products (Proposal for a Regulation on the making available on the Union market as well as export from the Union of certain...more
12/5/2022
/ Climate Change ,
Commodities ,
Due Diligence ,
Environmental Policies ,
EU ,
European Parliament ,
Exports ,
Forestry ,
Imports ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Supply Chain
The new requirements under the German Packaging Act (Verpackungsgesetz, VerpackG) present a challenge and an opportunity for companies that have to re-design their operational processes to comply with the new requirements. If...more
The European Commission (“EC”) gets started with its plans to improve toy safety in Europe with a Public Consultation leading the way to a new legislative proposal envisaged for Q4 2022. The new legislation is expected to put...more
Numerous companies have engaged for decades - on a voluntary basis – to ensure observance of fair-trade standards, human rights due diligence, and environmental protection, taking responsibility for their supply chains,...more
Business integrity for consumer companies -
Doing good business means doing things the right way -
Consumer companies around the world are incorporating sustainability, business integrity, and brand purpose into their...more
4/13/2021
/ Anti-Bribery ,
Anti-Corruption ,
Business Plans ,
Business Strategies ,
Capital Investments ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Environmental Claims ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Popular ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Supply Chain ,
Sustainability
Entering a new market can be a game changer for businesses in the consumer industry, but it can come with some significant legal risks. Consumer protection laws, supply chain issues, product regulation, data privacy issues,...more
9/16/2020
/ Antitrust Provisions ,
Business Development ,
Business Formation ,
Business Pursuits ,
Doing Business ,
Germany ,
Indonesia ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Singapore ,
UK ,
Vietnam
On 15 May 2020, the German Federal Council approved a new regulation by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The regulation provides for a ban of sweetened baby and infant tea and new information obligations for such...more
1. What are general recommendations?
In general, it is important to determine at an early stage which processes must be maintained, which people are needed to maintain operations and which measures are necessary to do so....more
Once again there is a new attempt in Germany to introduce stricter requirements for food safety – despite the full harmonization approach in general EU food law...more
2/26/2020
/ EU ,
Food Contamination ,
Food Manufacturers ,
Food Safety ,
Food Supply ,
Germany ,
Harmonization Rules ,
Public Health ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Transparency