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In this issue: Banking and finance Commercial Competition and state aid Corporate Data protection and cybersecurity Environment Financial services IP Life sciences Regulatory TMT Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Banking and finance EU banking package: EBA consults on Pillar 3 disclosures and supervisory reporting requirements for operational risk The European Banking Authority (EBA) has opened consultation on two draft implementing technical standards (ITS) that would revise Pillar 3 disclosure obligations and supervisory reporting for operational risk. Feedback is invited by 30 April 2024. See: LNB News 20/02/2024 42. EU banking package: EBA consults on business indicator-related mandates in CRR3 The EBA is also seeking views on two sets of draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) covering the components of the business indicator (BI), together with a draft ITS aligning BI components to the corresponding supervisory reporting references under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR)....

In this issue: EU fundamentals Commercial Competition and state aid Free movement, immigration and employment Data protection and cybersecurity Financial services Energy Environment IP Life sciences TMT Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers EU fundamentals Commission proposes €193.26bn EU budget for 2026 to advance key priorities The European Commission has unveiled its draft EU budget for 2026, setting total appropriations at €193.26bn, alongside an estimated €105.32bn in NextGenerationEU disbursements. Framed against continuing geopolitical uncertainty, the plan targets core strategic aims: ongoing support for Ukraine, strengthened security and defence, migration management, enhanced competitiveness, and investment underpinning the green and digital transitions. See: LNB News 04/06/2025 41. Commission opens consultation on political advertising guidance The Commission has launched a call for evidence on guidance for implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/900 on transparency in political advertising. The guidance will clarify how to identify political advertising and apply...

Issues to consider This Practice Note will be valuable for advisers to the publishing sector and providers of news aggregation services concerned with the spread of online information. It presumes familiarity with, and should be consulted alongside, the following Practice Notes: Copyright—subsistence and qualification Copyright infringement Linking on the web Copyright empowers the owner to restrain others from undertaking specified acts in relation to the protected work, including reproducing it and communicating it to the public. Online news aggregation and linking now represent major commercial activity, with copyright determining who may do what with particular content. When assessing the dissemination of information online, the key questions to address are: whether the material benefits from copyright protection whether there has been copyright infringement whether any exceptions to infringement apply the position regarding consent to reproduce material or to perform other potentially infringing acts Status of EU copyright law in the UK ...

ARCHIVED This Practice Note is archived and is no longer maintained. At 11 pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020, the implementation period—put in place to allow the UK to move away from the EU’s laws and institutions—came to a close. At this point in time (described in this document as ‘IP completion day’), there was an immediate and significant shift in the UK’s legal regime. This Note outlines the implications of that change for the following areas of Information Law and practice: Overview—what happened on 31 December 2020 Access to EEA workers Commercial arrangements Data protection (excluding matters relating to law enforcement processing and intelligence services processing) ePrivacy Cybersecurity Databases Public sector information Confidential information Reputation management For a tracker of key Information Law Brexit legislation and guidance, see Practice Note: Information Law—Brexit tracker. This Practice Note concentrates on the subjects listed above, except that it does not address the impact on law enforcement...