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The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
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EU & UK Competition Law & Public Interest: Best Practices & New Challenges ahead
Nota Bene Episode 135: Europe Q3 Check In: Brexit, Data Protection, and Block Exemption Regulations with Oliver Heinisch
NGE On Demand: Personal Data Protection Travels: The New Standard Contractual Clause with John Koenigsknecht and David Wheeler
Nota Bene Episode 123: Europe Q2 Check In - Brexit Updates and Antitrust Laws in the Digital Economy with Oliver Heinisch
Nota Bene Episode 112: How Europe is Filling Enforcement Gaps for Digital Gatekeepers with Robert Klotz and Ciara Barbu-O’Connor
Nota Bene Episode 106: The Corporate Investor Movement Toward Environmental, Social, and Governmental Policies with Allison Troianos and Ariel Yehezkel
Nota Bene Episode 102: Examining European Union State Aid in the Face of COVID and Brexit with Jacques Derenne and Robert Klotz
What's Next after the Schrems II Decision of ECJ
Compliance Perspectives: The End of the Privacy Shield
Nota Bene Episode 89: European Q3 Check In - Merger Clearance and Data Protection Court Rulings and Brexit Updates with Oliver Heinisch
Podcast: ESMA Report: Undue Pressure on Companies
Nota Bene Episode 65: European Check In: Environmental Protection, Privacy Regulations, Digital Market Definition, and Brexit with Oliver Heinisch
Nota Bene Episode 55: Updates on the European Commission and Brexit with Isabelle Rahman and Oliver Heinisch
On July 18, 2025, the European Commission published its guidelines on the scope of obligations for providers of general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) models under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act). ...more
The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (the EU AI Act) is the first comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) regulation to address AI technologies across the globe. The EU AI Act was proposed in April 2021 and...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already indispensable in the healthcare and life sciences sector. Intelligent medical devices promise nothing less than a revolution in the art of healing. With its legislative projects on AI...more
Introducing “SkadBytes,” our newest podcast where Skadden’s IP and Tech team discusses pivotal changes driving tech regulation and innovation. Host Deborah Kirk and colleagues Alistair Ho and Jonathan Stephenson reflect on...more
On July 10, 2025, the European Commission released a nearly final version of the General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice (Code) under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act). This blog post outlines the purpose,...more
The European Commission has published the final version of a general-purpose AI (“GPAI”) Code of Practice. We took a deeper look into it and prepared a short summary to help you understand what the GPAI Code of Practice is,...more
Global investment in AI surged to approximately USD 252 billion in 2024, representing a thirteen-fold increase since 2014. As AI technologies become deeply embedded across key economic sectors such as finance, manufacturing,...more
Over 45 leading European companies just publicly urged the EU to pause the rollout of the EU AI Act’s impending rules for high-risk and general-purpose AI (GPAI) systems, citing concerns over regulatory complexity and...more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
The EU AI Act (AI Act), effective since February 2025, introduces a risk-based regulatory framework for AI systems and a parallel regime for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models. It imposes obligations on various actors,...more
The European Commission recently launched a public consultation on the implementation of the AI Act, primarily focused on the classification (and ultimate regulation) of “high risk” AI systems. The AI Act employs a risk-based...more
Key Points - - The war in Ukraine has prompted a historic surge in European defense spending. - Governments in the EU and U.K. are stressing the need for innovation. They are increasingly turning to investment in small...more
The European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) has released a draft report (dated 14 May) and motion for a European Parliament resolution on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the...more
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
The European Commission’s AI Office (the overarching body overseeing enforcement of the EU AI Act) published its AI Continent Action Plan on April 9, 2025 (“Plan”). In this Plan, the European Commission (“EC”) puts forward...more
While positioning itself as a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) regulation with the EU AI Act, the EU has not historically been a global leader in innovative AI achievements. American and Chinese companies have...more
While the authorities’ publications on AI have recently tended to be in the area of data protection (such as the EDPB, which we covered here and here), the European Commission has recently published its first set of [draft]...more
The European Commission published guidelines that clarify the definition of AI systems under the AI Act, analyzing each component of the definition of AI system, providing examples and specifying which systems should be...more
Recently, the European Commission announced plans to advance Europe's position in the global AI race. Primarily, the Commission seeks to develop a 20 billion euro fund to build a network of AI gigafactories in Europe. This...more
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) is considered to be the world’s first comprehensive horizontal legal framework for AI. It provides for EU-wide rules on data quality, transparency, human oversight,...more
The Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) is the world's first comprehensive legal framework for AI regulation, which entered into force on August 1, 2024. The AI Act aims to ensure that AI systems are trustworthy, safe and...more
The European Commission (EC) has released an updated version of the Model Contractual Clauses for AI Procurement (MCC-AI), providing further guidance for public-sector buyers navigating AI procurement under the European Union...more
2024 saw a significant increase in overall global fines for antitrust enforcement, with total penalties for the jurisdictions surveyed in our report at USD6.7 billion, over double that of 2023 (USD2.9bn) and substantially...more
The first EU & UK AI Round-up, published on 15 January 2025, discussed the important regulatory updates affecting the AI ecosystem in both the EU and the UK that occurred towards the end of 2024. Notably since that update,...more
Understanding the need for regulation to ensure the safe use of AI, the European Union (EU) has introduced the world’s most comprehensive legal guideline, EU AI Act, designed to impose strict requirements on AI systems...more