Begin april verscheen de tweede druk van het boek “De Algemene verordening gegevensbescherming in Europees en Nederlands perspectief”. Het is een bijgewerkte versie van de eerste druk die verscheen rond de tijd dat de Algemene verordening gegevensbescherming (de “AVG”, ook wel bekend onder de Engelse afkorting: “GDPR”) van toepassing werd. De eerste druk is de…
Event announcement The Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE)’s building block on EU values in International Trade is organizing the third edition of its annual informal workshop on EU trade and investment policy, to take place on Friday, 6 December 2024. Building on earlier editions on the trade-security nexus (2022) and the…
Inaugural hybrid (Lund/online) workshop: 9-10 January 2025 Author conferences in Marseille, Istanbul and The Hague: 2025-2026 Discussed and dismissed, celebrated and critiqued, the Case of the S.S. “Lotus” has inspired controversial debates ever since it was decided by Max Huber’s presidential casting vote in 1927. As we approach the centenary of the Lotus Case in 2027, we invite…
States have a duty to cooperate for international development. But how can this be achieved? Ways to implement the broad duty to cooperate under international law. The necessity for effective international cooperation in the interest of development has never been more pressing in this interconnected world. Despite the noble intentions behind international aid, the current…
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*Daria Onitiu from https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/ai-alliance-consultation/guidelines.1.html The EU Commission’s proposal for the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (the ‘AI Act’) will bring significant changes to standard-setting for high-risk systems, including medical AI. The proposal’s risk-based approach intends to balance the socio-economic benefits of medical AI and the need for harmonised standards for safety-critical applications in healthcare. From medical…
In the realm of mergers & acquisitions (“M&A”) transactions, corporations almost always undergo due diligence, wherein the buyer conducts a thorough investigation and evaluation of the target company before entering into a transaction. In the context of due diligence operations, antitrust challenges may arise in specific situations, such as when the involved parties are direct…
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The long-awaited judgment from the European Court of Justice (“CJEU”) in the Google Shopping saga has finally arrived. On 10 September 2024, following a case that started with an investigation in 2010 and spanned nearly one and a half decades, the CJEU rejected Google’s appeal and delivered a huge victory for the European Commission (“Commission”). …
AG Campos Sánchez-Bordona elaborated today on the notion of a producer under the Product Liability Directive (Directive 85/374) in the case Ford Italia (C-157/23). A consumer in this case purchased a Ford Mondeo car from Stracciari, Ford’s dealer in Italy. The car itself was manufactured by Ford WAG, a German company, which used another company,…
Class actions in which damages can be awarded on a collective basis are still a relatively new phenomenon in Europe, with the UK, Portuguese and Dutch opt-out collective action regimes seen as frontrunners. It has dawned on policymakers and lawyers alike that damages can be suffered across a broad and disparate group of victims, which…
The deliberations of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) underscore the critical importance of legally defining or characterising the term “lethal” in the context of autonomous weapon systems (AWS). The Report of the Secretary General on LAWS stated that some “States considered the…
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