Category: European Law

Introduction The European Union (EU) and China signed a bilateral agreement for the reciprocal protection of Geographical Indications (GIs) against usurpation and imitation. The agreement strengths the EU-China trading relationship and reinforce the EU (sui generis) approach on GIs in the global market.  It took around eight years of negotiations, but in the end, it…

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On March 21, the CJEU published the most recent judgment interpreting provisions of Regulation 261/2004 on air passenger rights in the case Cobult (C-76/23) concerning the possibility of reimbursing passenger’s ticket cost through a voucher. Many of our readers may have experienced a flight cancellation over the past couple of years, not limited to Covid-19-related causes….

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This is a very romantic view of how a nation and/or a State should conduct its business. It is naïve to expect that any nation and/or State would always be a truthful force of good in its interactions with the rest of the world. Financial, economic and geopolitical interests very often influence State narratives. Given…

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Police worldwide are joining in with Taylor Swift’s tour craze by swapping friendship bracelets with fans. Could this interaction between police and citizens reshape trust, surveillance and security? Tears, shrieks and meticulously planned outfits: all hallmarks of Taylor Swift’s world-famous Eras Tour. Now in its sixteenth month, the tour has taken on a life of…

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The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement is a free trade agreement like no other: the first between parties negotiating from a position of regulatory convergence; the first trade deal in which the EU has accepted the principle of no tariffs and no quotas, but also the first trade deal which not only incorporates provisions that…

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  Earlier this year, the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) issued an order (Cass., ord. no.11413/2024) in a case concerning the protection by copyright of a lamp design. Part I of this post outlined the decisions issued as the case made its way through the Italian court system. Part II will now turn to the…

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There is no dull moment in the intra-EU realm. Pandora’s box has long been opened by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) with its Achmea decision leading to numerous ongoing challenges. In a recent ruling, the District Court of Amsterdam (“Amsterdam Court”) had to address a strategic manoeuvre by the Kingdom of…

Read More ““The Emperor’s New Clothes”: Where Does the New York Convention End and the Brussels I bis Regulation Begin? The Spanish Procedural Strategy in Dutch Courts” »

By Leonardo Munhoz, Researcher at Observatório de Bioeconomia da Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, and Jorge Rezende, law student at Fundação Getúlio Vargas  Traceability for livestock activity is becoming increasingly essential as worldwide demand for exports and more conscious consumption from a socio-environmental perspective grow. For example, in 2023, the European Parliament adopted the Deforestation…

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T-Mobile to Spend 31.5 Million Dollars to Settle Multiple FCC Investigations Related to Recent Data Breaches On September 30, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission announced that T-Mobile has entered into an agreement to settle multiple data protection and cybersecurity investigations stemming from data breaches in 2021, 2022 and 2023. The breaches involved the personal information…

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Introduction The introduction of new technologies have always thrust the issue of Public Procurement into the spotlight, subtly or otherwise. Recently, the Overton window in tech circles has been dominated by one discussion uber alles: Artificial Intelligence. So far, AI has already obtained credible influence in the way public procurement tenders can be drafted and…

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