Following its White Paper on AI in 2020, the European Commission released in April of this year a proposal for a regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (the "Regulation").
The withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) has had – and will still have – numerous legal consequences in various areas. One of the dimensions that have less come under the spotlights concerns the UK nationals recruited by the EU institutions prior to the Brexit.
On 19 May 2021, in its judgments T-643/20 and T-465/20, the General Court of the European Union annulled two decisions of the European Commission authorising State aid in favour of the airlines KLM and TAP for lack of reasoning.
On 18 May 2021, the European Commission approved an aid of EUR 392,000 to compensate for the damage suffered by SA Kléber Rossillon Waterloo, in charge of the management and commercial and tourist activities at the “Battle of Waterloo 1815” site
On 18 May 2021, the European Commission issued a communication on “Business Taxation for the 21st Century”. The announcements made therein are expected to translate into actual legislative proposals in the next three years.
On May 5, 2021, the European Commission unveiled a proposal for a Regulation “on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market.” This legislative initiative is aimed at remedying potential distortions of competition in the EU
In the aviation sector, identifying "green" economic activities and projects is not an easy task. The European Commission has published Steer's study on the criteria to be taken into account when establishing which specific activities in the aviation sector could be beneficial to the environment.
On 12 May 2021, the General Court of the EU issued its judgments concerning the appeals brought by Amazon and Luxembourg, respectively ENGIE and Luxembourg, against the European Commission decisions of October 2017
On 5 May 2021, the European Commission (the “Commission”) proposed a legislation that regulates foreign subsidies causing some distortion of competition in the European Union (see Proposal for regulation).
The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but their grind is relentless. In 2013, the European Commission fined Lundbeck and several generic pharma companies EUR 146 million in respect of anti-competitive agreements inked in 2002.
