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Nota Bene Episode 102: Examining European Union State Aid in the Face of COVID and Brexit with Jacques Derenne and Robert Klotz
JONES DAY PRESENTS®: EU Mandatory Disclosure Rules (DAC 6)
Nota Bene Episode 81: European Check In: How the EU is Dealing with the Pandemic’s Economic Fallout with Oliver Heinisch
Jones Day Talks: EU's New Foreign Direct Investment Regulations Eye Specific Sectors
As climate litigation spreads across Europe, the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") is increasingly asked to evaluate whether insufficient climate action by States may violate the rights enshrined in the European...more
The Forced Labour Regulation creates a framework for investigation and enforcement against products made with forced labour. On 19 November 2024, the EU Council (Council) adopted a regulation prohibiting products made with...more
South Korea’s Constitutional Court has issued a “first of its kind” decision in Asia, requiring South Korea to update its greenhouse gas reduction targets. On 29 August 2024, South Korea’s Constitutional Court (the Court)...more
With calm being restored after the frenzied effort in the EU to pass the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), it may be time to evaluate the extent to which the law as adopted has met its original...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made enormous strides in recent years and has increasingly moved into the public consciousness. Increases in computational power, coupled with advances in machine learning, have fueled the...more
On 23 April 2024, the European Parliament approved the much-anticipated regulation banning products made with forced labour from entering the EU market (the ‘Forced Labour Ban’). The approved text builds on the provisions of...more
The proposed regulation would ban forced labour-made products from the EU market, affecting companies’ supply chains and requiring compliance checks. On 5 March 2024, the European Parliament and European Council...more
The proposal highlights the growing global focus on companies’ human rights obligations not just towards employees but also towards workers in their supply chains. On 14 September 2022, the European Commission (the...more
After journey of over four years, the EU adopted Regulation (EU) 2021/821, recasting the Dual-Use Regulation. The new rules will enter into force on 9 September 2021 and will entail stricter catch-all controls on non-listed...more
On 22 March 2021, the European Union ("EU") designated a total of 22 individuals and 4 entities as subject to an asset freeze under the EU sanctions regimes relating to Global Human Rights Sanctions and Myanmar/Burma. ...more
In a much-anticipated move, on 7 December 2020, the Council of the European Union adopted a Council Decision and a Council Regulation establishing the EU’s global human rights sanctions regime (the GHRSR). ...more
On 7 December 2020, the EU Council adopted a landmark decision and a regulation setting up for the first time a global human rights sanctions framework for the EU. The EU can now respond to serious human rights violations and...more
Well, first of all, the UK is going to get Brexit done! What this will feel like after years of wrangling will remain to be seen. There are some reports that Boris Johnson’s newly elected government is squaring up for a...more
The Situation: In response to events in Syria and in the face of strong Congressional pressure to act, President Trump introduced sanctions targeting Turkey. The Result: Although the President indicated that a ceasefire...more
• On June 5, 2019, the European Union (EU) took a step forward with respect to modernizing its existing dual use legislation under Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 (the “EU Dual Use Regulation”), with the European Council...more
The European Parliament approved several amendments to the European Commission’s proposed Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online on April 17, 2019. The Regulation requires, among other things,...more
Increasingly, businesses across Europe must report on a wide range of ethical and related matters in addition to publishing their financial results. Requirements for businesses to undertake non-financial reporting have...more
The EU Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive has had a turbulent ride: it was first proposed in 2011, rejected in 2013 by the Civil Liberties Committee and discussions suspended a year later. It was then revived in the...more