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Staffing Up: Antitrust Regulators Around the World Step Up Digital Platform and Technology Enforcement

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In February, the Japan Fair Trade Commission announced that it will hire additional staff to enforce the country's new Act on Promotion of Competition for Specified Smartphone Software. The Act “aim[s] to foster innovation...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

EU Consults on Plans for a New Regulatory Regime for ESG Ratings Providers

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An evolving landscape of reforms in the ESG ratings sector continues to pose challenges to providers of ratings and scores. International momentum to regulate ESG ratings continues as the European Commission released a...more

K2 Integrity

Sanctions Against Russia: The Week in Review - June 2022 - 3

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The Week in Review delivers information and analysis on recent developments related to sanctions against Russia and key implications for the public, private, and non-profit sectors as the United States (U.S.), the European...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

[Ongoing Program] Japan Webinar Series - Session 4: Trade Policy Outlook - June 3rd, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm JST

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McDermott is committed to provide insightful legal developments around the world to our Japanese clients. In light of that effort, Japan Webinar Series will be held between Thursday, May 20 – Thursday, June 3, 2021. This...more

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[Ongoing Program] Japan Webinar Series - Session 3: Global Internal Investigations - June 1st, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm JST

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McDermott is committed to provide insightful legal developments around the world to our Japanese clients. In light of that effort, Japan Webinar Series will be held between Thursday, May 20 – Thursday, June 3, 2021. This...more

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[Ongoing Program] Japan Webinar Series - Session 2: Compliance: How Will The United States DOJ View Your Compliance Program, And...

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McDermott is committed to provide insightful legal developments around the world to our Japanese clients. In light of that effort, Japan Webinar Series will be held between Thursday, May 20 – Thursday, June 3, 2021. This...more

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[Ongoing Program] Japan Webinar Series - Session 1: Global Antitrust Developments - May 20th, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm JST

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McDermott is committed to provide insightful legal developments around the world to our Japanese clients. In light of that effort, Japan Webinar Series will be held between Thursday, May 20 – Thursday, June 3, 2021. This...more

White & Case LLP

Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Europe and Japan

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Enterprises around the world are rapidly incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into existing and new products and processes. This effort is not just to improve such offerings and services, but to achieve a qualitatively...more

Hogan Lovells

Securities and markets regulatory news, April 2020

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BMR: European Commission consults on equivalence for Japanese benchmarks - The European Commission is consulting on a draft Implementing Decision on the equivalence of the legal and supervisory framework applicable to...more

Jones Day

Jones Day Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update | Vol. 25

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UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - Cybersecurity Standards Issued for Government Contractors - On January 31, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and...more

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EU-Japan Trade Agreement Now in Effect

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While United States businesses were embroiled in trade wars, Japan advanced The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2018 without participation from the U.S. (TPP-11). Now, Japan and the...more

Hogan Lovells

EU and Japan Create World’s Largest Area of Safe Data Transfers

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On 23 January, the European Commission announced that it had adopted an adequacy decision in relation to Japan, to enter into force immediately. The mutual agreement, which covers Japan’s 127m citizens as well as the whole of...more

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European Commission Details Decision On Japan’s Adequate Data Protection

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Key takeaways from the European Commission (EC) decision holding Japan as providing adequate protection to personal data: Japan ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the EU Japan...more

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EU-Japan Adequacy Decision now in force

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The European Commission and the Personal Information Protection Commission of Japan have agreed mutual adequacy decisions regarding the transfer of personal data. This is a significant development, and allows businesses to...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

European Commission Adopts Adequacy Decision for Japan

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The European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for Japan on 23 January 2019, opening the doors for personal data to flow freely between the two major global economies. The Adequacy Decision - Following two years...more

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EU and Japan Finalize Data Transfer Deal

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As we previously reported the EU and Japan reached a tentative deal last summer to ease data transfer restrictions between them. That deal has now been approved by both the European Commission and by Japan and is effective...more

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The European Commission Adopts Adequacy Decision on Japan

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On January 23, 2018, the European Commission (“EC”) adopted its adequacy decision on Japan. Japan issued an equivalent decision regarding data transfers from Japan to the European Union on the same day. This means that...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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I wish I had some better news for you heading into Christmas, but Wall Street was not in the holiday spirit, with all major indices diving another 2% or so on Thursday....more

King & Spalding

EU-Japan Data Flows

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On September 5, 2018, the European Commission (“EC”) published its draft decision on whether Japan’s 2003 Act on the Protection of Personal Information (“APPI”) provides protection equivalent to the protection of personal...more

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Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2018

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In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine Brazil's new data protection regulation, the French data protection authority's warning to two companies of potential GDPR violations and the U.S....more

K&L Gates LLP

The New EU-Japan Personal Data Deal: EU and Japan to Each Recognize the Other’s Personal Data Protection System as Equivalent –...

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Background - On 17 July 2018, the European Union (the “EU”) and Japan reached an agreement to recognize each other’s data protections systems as “equivalent”, and each commits to complete internal procedures by fall 2018 (the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Revisiting LNG Resale Restrictions – Implications of Recent EU Decisions

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In our July 2017 update in AG Speaking Energy, we highlighted that the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) concluded in its market study that destination clauses, diversion clauses, profit-sharing clauses and take-or-pay...more

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European Commission Takes Aim at Qatar’s LNG Contracts

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• JFTC‘s recent market study on clauses in LNG SPAs indicate that agreements may run afoul of Japanese antimonopoly laws. • EU cases may provide guidance on application of competition law to destination clauses, diversion...more

A&O Shearman

Gun-jumping and Procedural Compliance

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The EU and U.S. competition authorities have been and remain active in enforcing gun-jumping cases, while in recent years other competition authorities across the world, including in China, have also become increasingly...more

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Japan and South Korea in the Pipeline for Adequacy Decision

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In early 2017, the EU Commission published a communication about “Exchanging and Protecting Personal Data in a Globalized World” in which the EU Commission prioritizes discussions on possible adequacy decision with key...more

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