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A recent update to EU consumer law will require many businesses selling online to offer a simpler, more accessible way for customers to cancel contracts within the standard 14-day cooling-off period....more
In this article, we look at the proposed Anti-Corruption Directive, its impact on companies incorporated outside the EU and how non-EU countries might respond if it is implemented, looking to Ukraine and the UK as case...more
The EU Commission has adopted Directive (EU) 2024/2853, which implements a comprehensive overhaul of the 1985 Directive 85/374/EEC on defective product liability (“New PLD”). The new framework, which complements Regulation...more
EU member states have until 7 June 2026 to implement the EU Pay Transparency Directive (the Directive) into their domestic law. This LawFlash summarises the Directive’s key requirements, considers the current implementation...more
On October 10, 2024, the Council of the European Union adopted the new EU Directive on Liability for Defective Products (New PLD), repealing Directive 85/374/EEC (PLD), adopted in 1985....more
More than 3,500 workers have won a legal fight for equal pay against major UK retailer Next Retail Ltd. Following a six-year legal battle, the Employment Tribunal ruled that Next had failed to demonstrate that the lower basic...more
On July 12, 2024, the EU AI Act (EU Regulation 1689/2024) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The text of the law is final and will enter into force on August 1, 2024. Its provisions will apply...more
The criminal liability of the absorbed company is transferred to the absorbing company, regardless of the corporate form of the company involved in the merger by absorption. In a ruling handed down on May 22, 2024, 1 the...more
European Union policymakers reached a provisional agreement on the Platform Work Directive on March 11, 2024, which reveals significant concessions on the classification of digital platform workers as employees or independent...more
After more than two years of legislative highs and lows for the European Union’s proposed Platform Work Directive, the EU may be inching closer to adopting regulations on the classification of platform workers, such as...more
On July 31, 2023, the European Commission announced its adoption of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) for companies subject to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The long-awaited...more
On June 1, 2023, the European Parliament adopted amendments to the corporate sustainability due diligence regulation and amending directive. Under the amendments, large companies operating in the EU would be required to...more
The European Commission has published a proposed Directive which, building on measures already in place, would require member states to incorporate uniform anti-bribery measures into their laws. Whilst most EU member states...more
As the last of the EU member states implement the Whistleblower Directive, we recap the new rules employers need to be aware of, and give our views on whether a ‘one size fits all’ approach is feasible....more
As part of the European Green Deal ambitions, the proposal encourages sustainable consumption through additional incentives to repair products to reduce waste and emissions. On 22 March 2023, the European Commission...more
On December 8, 2022, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the European Union’s highest court, delivered a landmark ruling in Orde van Vlaamse Balies a.o. (the Judgment) clarifying that legal professional privilege (LPP) is...more
Since the launch of the EU Whistleblowing Protection Directive on December 21, 2021, EU countries and organizations have been scrambling to transpose the rules into their current national laws. The Directive’s purpose is to...more
From 2024 at the earliest, more European and global companies will need to disclose their ESG activities in greater detail. On 10 November 2022, the European Parliament adopted a final version of the Corporate...more
As of August 1, 2022, it will be more difficult for employers in the Netherlands to prohibit employees from working for other employers. Employers will then be able to prohibit such work only if they have objective reasons...more
On December 17, 2021, when the deadline for implementing the EU Whistleblowing Directive expires – or, at the latest, when corresponding national whistleblower protection laws come into force – member states of the European...more
The clock is ticking for global employers with staff in the EU to prepare for changes in reports made by EU whistleblowers. Employers need to determine how the Directive will be implemented in each of EU’s 27 Member States,...more
After more than seven years, the EU Parliament formally endorsed the much-anticipated new directive on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers (the “Directive”). This was the final...more
Although the decision appears on its face to be a positive development for online marketplaces, it is does not definitively resolve questions of liability. On 2 April 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)...more
The last year of the 2010s has been prolific in terms of important new pieces of legislation and case law within the European Union, and in France and Germany in particular. Indeed, the European Parliament and the EU Council...more
Recently, representatives of EU member states agreed on a mutual position regarding the Commission's Proposal for a Directive on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers, and...more