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In this issue: Commercial Data protection and cybersecurity Financial services Energy Environment IP Life sciences TMT LexTalk®EU Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Commercial Council of the EU adopts Directive on right to repair The Council of the EU has approved a Right to Repair Directive aimed at encouraging the fixing of broken or faulty goods. It seeks to make repair services easier to access, more transparent and appealing, and brings in measures that include a European online portal for consumers to find repair providers, plus a 12-month extension to the legal guarantee when a customer chooses repair instead of replacement. Following signature by the President of the European Parliament and the President of the Council, the Directive will be published in the Official Journal of the EU and will take effect 20 days after publication. See: LNB News 30/05/2024 58...

This Practice Note monitors the development of EU judgments, new legislation, legislative proposals, codes of conduct, communications and ongoing consultations concerning media, digital and telecoms rights across the EU. For UK judgments, legislative proposals and current UK consultations relating to media and digital rights, see Practice Note: Media, digital and telecoms tracker—UK. For EU judgments, legislative proposals and live consultations on copyright and databases, see Practice Note: Copyright and databases tracker—EU. For EU media and digital initiatives connected to consumer protection, see Practice Note: EU consumer protection—tracker. For broader EU digital initiatives, see Practice Note: Key EU digital initiatives—summary. Further details are set out below. References to related trackers are provided for ease, also for ease of use. Media, digital and telecoms—new legislation Legislation appears in reverse chronological order, determined by the date it is published in the Official Journal of the EU (OJEU). For details on the implementation of the EU Digital Services Act (EU DSA) and the EU Digital Markets Act (EU DMA), see Practice...

The EU glossary brings together and clarifies terms regularly used in EU law. Blue economy The European Union’s blue economy covers all activities and sectors linked to oceans, seas and coastlines, whether operating directly in the marine environment (eg shipping, seafood, energy production) or on land (eg ports, shipyards, coastal infrastructures). Circular Economy Action Plan In March 2020, under the European Green Deal, the European Commission adopted a new Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP). The CEAP seeks to: make sustainable products the norm across the EU prioritise sectors likely to be highly affected by circularity, such as construction and buildings, batteries and vehicles, water, packaging, plastics, batteries, electronics empower consumers and public procurers cut waste For further details on the CEAP, see News Analysis: New circular economy action plan published, Sustainable products and supply chains (EU Law)—overview and Practice Note: EU Environment—horizon scanner, which covers key new and upcoming EU legislation and consultations relating to waste regulation,...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. At 11 pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020, the implementation period ended, concluding the UK’s move away from the EU’s legal frameworks and bodies. From that moment—described here as ‘IP completion day’—the UK’s legal landscape altered materially. On 24 December 2020, the European Commission and the UK government revealed an agreement in principle on the legal basis for the future UK–EU relationship. Arriving barely a week before IP completion day, the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), together with related accords, was finalised at the last minute, allowing scant opportunity to establish the legal and practical measures needed to render the deal fully functional. The agreement was executed on 30 December 2020 and secured approval from the UK Parliament (with accompanying implementing legislation). Owing to the compressed timetable, the UK and EU consented to apply the deal provisionally from 1 January 2021, while awaiting the EU’s full ratification. The provisional TCA, alongside its associated agreements, declarations and regulations,...

A well-known problem amongst procurement professionals A widely recognised headache for procurement practitioners arises from the duty in regulation 53 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015), SI 2015/102 (PCR 2015, SI 2015/102, reg 53). It requires the ‘procurement documents’ to be accessible at the time a public contract is advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union (the Official Journal, or OJEU). In essence, contracting authorities must use the internet to provide unrestricted, complete and immediate access, at no cost, to those documents from the day a notice, issued under regulation 51, appears in the Official Journal, or from the day an invitation to confirm interest is dispatched. The issue most often raised, particularly for public procurements run under the restricted procedure (and comparable routes that involve a pre-qualification phase ahead of the award stage), is whether the invitation to tender and the specification must already be available when the contract notice is published in the OJEU. Timing this disclosure often proves challenging for contracting authorities...