The new Directive (EU) 2019/520 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2019 "on the interoperability of electronic road toll systems and facilitating cross-border exchange of information on the failure to pay road fees in the Union" enters into force on 18 April 2019.
The European Union has published a series of guidelines last week to guide companies and governments in developing ethical AI applications.
The Commission has established that Nike’s non-exclusive licensing and distribution agreements breached article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (“TFEU”).
Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, a senior legal adviser to the EUs Court of Justice (CJEU), delivered an opinion (Case C?673/17) in a case concerning the questions: should websites actually give users the choice to accept cookies and to what extent?
Following the European Falsified Medicines Directive, new safety measures entered into force in the EU on 9 February 2019 that guarantee the identification and authenticity of medicinal products and must be adopted by players in the medicinal distribution chain. The European Commission adopted this Regulation that contains detailed rules on safety measures for the packaging of drugs.
On 20 March 2019, Google was ned EUR 1.49 billion for infringing EU Competition Law
On 14 February 2019, the Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States (Coreper) endorsed a draft regulation which introduces an exception to the protection granted to a medicinal product by a supplementary protection certificate (SPC) for export purposes and/or stockpiling. Next step is submission to the European Parliament and Council for adoption.
In a bid to tackle the consequences of a possible Hard Brexit on EU nationals living in the UK and UK nationals living on the continent, on 22 February 2019 the Committee of Permanent Representatives in the EU (Coreper)
In a UK parliamentary vote on March 14, MPs voted to ask the EU for a delay to Brexit and rejected the idea of leaving the EU without a deal under any circumstances.
On 29 March 2019, the United Kingdom is supposed to leave the European Union as a consequence of the referendum held in the UK on 23 June 2016. UK Parliament confirmed the leave decision of the referendum and UK Prime Minister May notified the start of the 2-year exit procedure foreseen in article 50 of the EU Treaty to EU President Tusk by letter of 29 March 2017[i].
