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German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act and Its Impact on Latin America
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Jones Day Talks: Navigating Foreign Direct Investment in Germany
Investor Considerations in Germany’s Renewable Energy Sector
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On May 8, 2025, the Federal Labor Court Bundesarbeitsgericht (“BAG”) issued a significant ruling concerning an employee’s claims for damages due to unlawful data transfers within a corporate group. The BAG ruled that works...more
The German Data Protection Conference (DSK) on September 11, 2024 published guidance on asset deals (the Guidelines) that distinguishes between various stages of a sale process and the relevant personal data that can be...more
Welcome to the latest edition of Updata! Updata is an international report produced by Eversheds Sutherland’s dedicated Privacy and Cybersecurity team – it provides you with a compilation of key privacy and cybersecurity...more
Der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) wird bald darüber entscheiden, ob europäische Datenschutzbehörden künftig leichter Bußgelder nach Art. 83 DSGVO gegen Unternehmen verhängen können. Diese Entscheidung kann großen Einfluss...more
The Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) of the German state Hamburg is one of the first European DPA to publish an optimistic assessment on the U.S. Executive Order on “Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals...more
On 13 July 2022, the Public Procurement Chamber of the German state of Baden-Württemberg (the Public Procurement Chamber) issued a decision confirming that personal data processed by an EU subsidiary of a parent entity...more
Der Europäische Datenschutzausschuss (EDSA) hat am 12. Mai 2022 Leitlinien zur Berechnung von Bußgeldern wegen möglicher DSGVO-Verstöße veröffentlicht (Leitlinien). Die Leitlinien sollen das Bußgeldrecht in den einzelnen...more
Das Bundeskabinett hat am 8. September 2021 die vom Bundesministerium des Inneren, für Bau und Heimat (BMI) vorgelegte neue Cybersicherheitsstrategie 2021 beschlossen. Die neue Cybersicherheitsstrategie wird die deutsche...more
On 8 September 2021, the Federal Cabinet adopted the new strategy for cybersecurity 2021 presented by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (Bundesministerium des Inneren, für Bau und Heimat, BMI). The...more
According to a press release of the data protection authority (DPA) of Lower Saxony earlier this month, nine German DPAs will participate in a coordinated audit of companies in Germany regarding their transfers of personal...more
At the beginning of the year, the German data protection authorities (DPAs) announced that they would take joint action to enforce the decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the "Schrems II" case. On June 1,...more
Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in the Global Healthcare Industry - Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) seek out investments that are resilient, conducive to their aims and objectives, and reasonably free from market...more
Das Portal fragdenstaat.de (Link) hat einen Fragebogen der Hamburgischen Datenschutzbehörde veröffentlicht, mit Hilfe dessen die Behörde die Umsetzung des Schrems-II-Urteils exemplarisch am Einsatz von Office 365 überprüft....more
Germany has seen a couple of record GDPR fines since the German Data Protection Authorities (DPA) issued their guidance paper on how to measure GDPR fines in October 2019. One of these DPA sanctions was recently subject to...more
When it comes to infringements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the first thing that comes to mind are proceedings and fines imposed by the data protection authorities. It is often neglected that GDPR...more
The Data Protection Authority of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany has issued FAQs on Schrems II, weighing in on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and Standard Contractual Clauses. The guidance comes on the heels of FAQs issued recently...more
In the wake of Schrems II, the July 16, 2020, decision from the European Court of Justice that invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield as a legal means of data transfer between the European Union and the United States,...more
On August 24, 2020, the data protection authority of the German state of Baden-Württemberg (the “DPA”) published guidance (the “Guidance”) on international transfers of personal data following the Schrems II judgment....more
The data protection authority of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg issued a guidance for European Union data exporters in the wake of the Schrems II decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which...more
Fragen, Antworten und Praxistipps zum weiteren Einsatz von Standardvertragsklauseln - Der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) hat mit seinem Urteil vom 16. Juli 2020, Rechtssache C-311/18 („Schrems II“) die Rahmenbedingungen...more
This morning, Germany’s Federal Data Protection Authority (DPA) announced that the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has finalized an initial set of FAQs on international transfers in light of the recent Schrems II...more
There is a lot currently happening in the European Union. From the latest European Court opinions with respect to merger clearance, dominance violations, data protection and state aid to Brexit, we’re checking in with our...more
We previously posted on yesterday’s Schrems II decision issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Today (Jun 17, 2020), the Berlin data protection authority (Berlin DPA) went even further than the CJEU opinion,...more
When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced, one of the central topics in the media was the possibility of large fines for data protection violations. Art. 83 of GDPR set benchmarks with a maximum fine...more
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and a number of European data protection supervisory authorities have recently issued guidance on processing personal data, including special categories of personal data (i.e., health...more