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2026 This timeline highlights significant developments relating to the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive 2014/59/EU (EU BRRD) from 2024 onwards. For earlier events, see Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD)-timeline [Archived]. 11 March 2026 - European Commission: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/519 of 10 March 2026, which amends the implementing technical standards set out in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/622 concerning reporting frequency and the information to be reported, has been published in the Official Journal of the EU and enters into force on 31 March 2026. 9 March 2026 - EBA: Banking Resolution-submission of the final draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1075 with respect to RTS specifying the content of resolution plans and group resolution plans, as well as the operational functioning of the resolution colleges. The European Banking Authority has forwarded these RTS to the European Commission. This overview presents the most...

This tracker outlines the consultation papers issued by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) from 2008–2013, listed in reverse date order, and includes links to the relevant FSA webpage and/or PDF versions of the papers. For details of Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) consultation papers, together with subsequent rules and guidance, see: • FCA consultation paper tracker-2021 [Archived] 2013 Publication date Consultation Paper (including FSA webpage if available) Description March 2013 - FSA webpage: CP13/9: Implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive Part 2; CP13/9: Follow-up consultation on draft rules and guidance for implementing the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). March 2013 - FSA webpage: CP13/8: Publishing information about warning notices; CP13/8: Proposals on how the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would publish details about the subject-matter of a warning notice where it considers publication appropriate. March 2013 - FSA webpage: CP13/7: Consumer credit regulation-our proposed regime; CP13/7: Invites views on the proposed framework and rules for the new consumer...

Checklist This Checklist presents a consolidated, structured timeline for the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA Regulation), which took effect on 29 June 2023. It covers the staggered roll-out of the Level 1 regime (Phase 1) and the progression of Level 2 and 3 measures. The Checklist sets out the principal legislative milestones and commencement dates before and after the Phase 1 implementation of the MiCA Regulation, together with the continuing development of regulatory technical standards (RTS), implementing technical standards (ITS), guidelines, Q&As and other supervisory actions issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the European Banking Authority (EBA) and other relevant authorities. For material centred on how EU authorities regulate cryptoassets, see Practice Note: EU regulation of cryptoassets. To explore the stance adopted by supranational bodies on the regulation of cryptoassets, see Practice Note: Supranational approach to the regulation of cryptoassets. 2026 2 March 2026 - European Banking Authority: EBA issues a No Action letter on the interaction between...

In this issue: Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Networks and network connections Renewable energy Capacity Market, balancing services and energy system flexibility International energy Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing DESNZ launches consultation on regulating TPIs in the retail energy market The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has opened a consultation to bring Third Party Intermediaries in the retail energy market under regulation, bolstering consumer protection and aiding the shift to a cleaner energy system. Triggered by cases of consumers and businesses being targeted by unregulated rogue brokers and other TPIs, this forms part of the government’s ongoing support for Ofgem to develop an effective market for non-domestic customers, alongside implementing recommendations from Ofgem’s July 2023 non-domestic policy consultation. The consultation closes on 15 November 2024. See: LNB News 20/09/2024 36. Ofgem launches statutory consultation on SoLR Levy Offset...

How has the exemption available for controllers under the GDPR in relation to liability to compensate data subjects changed? Under the earlier Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (Article 23(2)), where a person was entitled to damages from a controller due to unlawful processing, the controller could rely on a potential exemption if it was not responsible for the event that caused the loss. Recital 55 offered two illustrations of situations for which the controller would not bear responsibility: a mistake by the data subject, and a case of force majeure The language of these provisions lacked clarity, and the concept of ‘force majeure’ has no consistent definition across EU legal systems (it does not even carry a settled meaning in English law, depending heavily on contractual wording). Unsurprisingly, this carve-out, and the reference to force majeure, was therefore loosely carried across into national implementing legislation. For example, the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998) gave a controller a defence in claims for compensation...

On 18 November, European Commissioner for Justice Michael McGrath said he had heard industry feedback and concluded the EU need not impose rules on third‑party funding. Instead, Europe would centre efforts on implementing EU legislation that brings in a pathway for consumer class actions throughout the bloc, rather than drafting further regulatory measures at present. He explained that, based on that input, the Commission would give priority to overseeing how the Representative Actions Directive is applied in consumer collective redress, speaking at the closing session of the EU’s high‑level forum on justice for growth. On 20 November 2025, Paul Kong, executive director of the International Legal Finance Association (ILFA), welcomed McGrath’s unequivocal indication that regulation of third‑party litigation finance at EU level is not envisaged. He added that this seemed to shut down any discussion about fresh rules, which, in his view, lacked any evidential basis...

Resource Note This Resource Note signposts key commentary, analysis and materials to aid interpretation and offer practical direction on using Chapter 2 of the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules (DTR 2). Where relevant, it draws on: the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Handbook FCA Knowledge Base—Procedural and Technical notes (formal guidance binding on the FCA) FCA consultation and discussion papers, policy and feedback statements, and warnings Primary Market Bulletins and other FCA publications legacy UKLA technical and procedural notes and the UKLA’s newsletter List!, where still pertinent assimilated EU legislation EU Directives and EU Regulations, where helpful to construing a provision Lexis+® UK analysis and resources Setting the scene What it covers: DTR 2 prescribes the framework for issuers to disclose and manage inside information, supporting timely and even-handed release of market-sensitive information. It also identifies specific situations permitting a delay to public disclosure of inside information, together with the safeguards required to keep such information...

Scope of this Practice Note This Practice Note sets out the main types of radioactive waste and examines disposal against the EU-defined waste hierarchy. It places contemporary management of radioactive waste within the historical development of the nuclear industry from a planning standpoint. Principal policy documents are reviewed to chart the evolution of government thinking over time. Geological disposal of Higher Activity Waste (HAW) under the Planning Act 2008 (PA 2008) is compared with alternative disposal routes under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990) and the Planning (Wales) Act 2015. Consultation duties, application processes and required consents are identified for both regimes. Notable planning appeals and judicial review cases are highlighted before looking at international approaches to radioactive waste. What is radioactive waste? In the UK, radioactive waste arises—and will arise—from past, current and future programmes for electricity generation from nuclear fission, the reprocessing of nuclear fuel, the development of nuclear weapons, the nuclear submarine fleet and wastes from radioactive materials used for civil...

Telecommunications in the UK is governed by both sector‑specific regulation and the general framework of competition law. This Practice Note explains how Ofcom, the UK’s national regulator, undertakes market reviews of the telecoms sector, with a particular emphasis on the Physical Infrastructure and Business Connectivity Markets, and the Wholesale Fixed Telecoms Market Review. Ofcom’s powers Ofcom has powers under the Communications Act 2003 (CA 2003) to assess defined markets, judge whether competition is effective, and impose suitable remedies where competition issues are found. Several of these powers originated in European directives transposed into UK law. The most recent is Directive (EU) 2018/1972, which establishes the European Electronic Communications Code (Recast), implemented in December 2020. Those powers continue to apply because the implementing measures are EU‑derived domestic legislation and now sit within assimilated law. For further detail on the European Electronic Communications Code, see the Practice Note on the European Electronic Communications Code. ‘Assimilated law’ is the term for retained EU law (REUL) that remains in effect after the...

Under WTR 1998, workers get 5.6 weeks’ annual leave each year: a basic entitlement of four weeks’ leave (20 days for a standard full‑time worker) implementing article 7 of the Working Time Directive (WTD) an additional 1.6 weeks’ leave (eight days for a standard full‑time worker) created by domestic law only Understanding this distinction is important because: European Court of Justice case law concerns the WTD alone, so it applies only to the basic four weeks’ paid leave holiday pay is calculated differently for: the basic four weeks, and the additional 1.6 weeks The general rules as to the right to carry forward accrued holiday entitlement are that: the basic four weeks must be taken in the leave year earned and cannot be carried over (though an employer may choose to allow it) a relevant agreement may allow the additional 1.6...

UK Within the UK, Defra leads the development of new regulations arising from initial studies that prioritise gains in energy efficiency. These rules are policed by the National Measurement Office (NMO). EU Ecodesign and energy-using requirements The European EuP Directive 2005/32/EC acted as a framework, with precise performance benchmarks and test methods defined in accompanying implementing measures and regulations. It was later replaced by the Eco-Design Directive 2009/125/EC. In the UK, the 2005 Directive was transposed via the Ecodesign for Energy-Using Products 2007, SI 2007/2037, which was in turn revoked by the Eco-Design for Energy-Related Products Regulations 2010, SI 2010/2617. The 2010 Regulations transpose Directive 2009/125/EC into UK law, aiming to enhance product environmental performance across the whole life cycle by embedding environmental considerations at the earliest stages of design. The EU is setting minimum energy and environmental performance standards for more than twenty product groups, including lighting. Detailed technical provisions appear in the regulations, while the Market Transformation Programme (MTP) offers further information and the evidence...