Op 18 april 2019 treedt de nieuwe Richtlijn (EU) 2019/520 van het Europees Parlement en de Raad van 19 maart 2019 "betreffende de interoperabiliteit van elektronische tolheffingssystemen voor het wegverkeer en ter facilitering van de grensoverschrijdende uitwisseling van informatie over niet-betaling van wegentol in de Unie" in werking.
De Europese Unie heeft afgelopen week een reeks richtlijnen gepubliceerd die bedrijven en overheden een leidraad moeten geven bij het ontwikkelen van AI-toepassingen op een ethische manier.
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?
In navolging van de Europese Richtlijn 2011/62/EU van 8 juni 2011 ter bestrijding van vervalste geneesmiddelen, zijn op 9 februari 2019 Europese veiligheidsmaatregelen van kracht gegaan die door de verschillende spelers in de distributieketen van geneesmiddelen moeten worden nageleefd. Deze maatregelen dienen de authenticiteit van geneesmiddelen te waarborgen.
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].
