Laura Bolado
Laura worked in EU law for over two decades making it one her main area of expertise. In 2002 she worked for the European Commission (Brussels) and relocated to London in 2003 to work for the European Medicines Agency. There she gained first-hand experience on the functioning of the EU which she later applied in legal roles at pharmaceutical companies and law firms before turning to a more generalist approach to EU law at LexisNexis. At LexisNexis she helped develop and maintain EU Tracker (writing on the implementation of EU Directives in different EU jurisdictions, etc.) and assisted various departments with EU law matters in her EU Law Specialist capacity. Laura also delivered EU law training to several interns and legal professionals. Laura left LexisNexis in late 2013 to explore her options in different environments. In 2014 Laura lectured EU law at universities in Argentina, spoke at international conferences and continued with her contributions to national legal publications (Rubinzal and Abeledo Perrot/Thomson Reuters) in EU and Integration law. Laura became an author for PSL Public Law in October 2014. After returning to London in 2015 she run her own business which included regular contributions to PSL Environment, Energy and Public Law. From 2017 until 2020 Laura authored the Europe chapter of LexisNexis Civil Court Practice (Green Book). From 2019 until 2024 Laura contributed to Reg-Track writing on financial services, data protection, money laundering, environmental and social governance, etc. in several jurisdictions worldwide. As of 2025 Laura is part of Cube Global where she continues to write about various topics in a remote-contractual basis (as she has now relocated to Spain).
Education
Laura is a dual-qualified lawyer (Argentina and Spain) with two LLMs in European Law and in Information Technology Law awarded by the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain.
Laura is a data protection professional certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP CIPP/E) also holds an International Compliance Association certificate in Anti-Money Laundering.
Practice Areas
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2000
Qualifications
- LLB (2000 (Arg) – 2004 (Spain))
- LLM EU Law (2001)
- LLM Information Technology Law (2002)
Education
- Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (2000)
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2004)
21 Contributions by Laura Bolado
PRACTICE NOTES
Persistent Organic Pollutants in the UK: Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2019/1021—key duties, exemptions, waste controls, enforcement, reporting and recent post‑Brexit amendments and divergences
Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on persistent organic pollutants (Text with EEA relevance) (Assimilated Regulation)
Entry into force: 15/07/2019 (Date pub. +20). By Article 22, this measure repeals Regulation (EC) 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on persistent organic pollutants and amending Directive 79/117/EEC.
Legislation in England and Wales
Legislation for England and Wales has been introduced in connection with the Assimilated Regulation; see Legislation in England and Wales.
The Persistent Organic Pollutants (Various Amendments) Regulations 2019, SI 2019/1099, revise existing instruments to bring them into line with the Assimilated Regulation, taking effect in part on 15 July 2019 and in full on 12 August 2019.
The Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, SI 2020/1358, were made to correct deficiencies so that retained EU law operates effectively in the UK after IP completion day.
Subject
Persistent organic pollutants.
Background to the Assimilated POPs Regulation
In October 2017, the EU Commission issued a report on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) within the Future brief—Science for Environment Policy series, titled ‘POPs: towards a POPs-free future’. It addressed legislation and potential ways...
Environment
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