On April 9 2025, the European Commission published the AI Continent Action Plan (the Action Plan), which outlines the EU’s strategy to enhance innovation, competitiveness and regulatory compliance in artificial intelligence...more
On March 24 2025, the European Commission (EC) adopted the final draft Delegated Regulation setting out Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for subcontracting ICT services supporting critical or important functions under the...more
4/16/2025
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Data Protection ,
Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) ,
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Financial Institutions ,
Information Technology ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Subcontractors ,
Third-Party Service Provider
On February 11 2025, the European Commission (the EU Commission) released its 2025 work programme in which it published its AI and privacy initiatives for 2025 (the Work Programme) in order to boost competitiveness, enhance...more
2/27/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Privacy Laws ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Technology Sector
When the AI Act was first proposed by the European Commission in 2021, the concept of “general purpose AI” was nowhere to be found. These rules were introduced during the legislative process to align the AI Act to the...more
The European Parliament (the Parliament) and the Council of the European Union (the Council) reached a compromise on the Artificial Intelligence Act (the AI Act) on 8 December 2023. Although the final text is not yet...more
12/18/2023
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Enforcement Actions ,
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European Parliament ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Technology Sector
On 3 October 2023, the European Commission announced a public consultation regarding the draft implementing regulation (Draft Regulation) establishing the European Common Criteria-based cybersecurity certification scheme...more
In its two Confédération Paysanne decisions (cases C-528/161 and C-688/21), the Court of Justice of the European Union limited the exclusion of plants and products obtained by new genomic techniques (NGTs) from the...more
9/8/2023
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EU Directive ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Genetically Engineered Seed ,
GMO ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Life Sciences ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Assessment
When the European Commission first released its proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act in April 2021, generative AI was far from being an immediate concern of regulators. That of course all changed with the recent surge...more
8/25/2023
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Enforcement ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Parliament ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Machine Learning ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Proposed Rules ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Supervision ,
Technology ,
Training Requirements
On 25 November 2020, the European Commission announced in its Communication for a Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe a thorough review of the EU pharmaceutical legislation, which was originally planned for 2022....more