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In this issue: Competition and state aid Corporate Data protection and cybersecurity Free movement, employment and immigration Financial services Insurance and reinsurance IP Life sciences Regulatory TMT International trade Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers and horizon scanners Competition and state aid State aid—Commission reviews State aid rules for banks in difficulty The European Commission has launched a call for evidence to update the State aid regime for banks in difficulty. The current framework consists of six distinct communications, last revised in 2013. See News Analysis: EU Competition law—daily round-up (17/03/2026). State aid—Commission adopts new State aid rules to boost the use of more sustainable ways of transport The Commission has approved new State aid Land and Multimodal Transport Guidelines (LMT Guidelines) and a Transport Block Exemption Regulation (TBER), refreshing the EU State aid framework to encourage more sustainable passenger and freight transport,...

Additional developments Alongside the full coverage in the Financial Services news feed on 8 March 2024, subscribers may wish to note the following: FCA: Whistleblowing quarterly data 2023 Q3 FCA: Whistleblowing quarterly data 2023 Q4 OJEU: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/796 of 4 March...

In this issue: EU fundamentals Competition and state aid Data protection and cybersecurity Financial services Energy Environment IP Life sciences Regulatory TMT International trade Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers New Q&As EU fundamentals European e-Justice Strategy 2024–2028 On 16 January 2025, the European e-Justice Strategy 2024–2028 (Strategy) was printed in the Official Journal of the EU (OJEU). It sets out a framework to advance the digitalisation of justice across the EU and continues the Union’s drive to modernise judicial systems. The initiative furthers the EU’s sustained push to update court systems EU-wide and digitally. Marco Pasqua, junior editor of the European Association of Private International Law blog, examines the Strategy. See News Analysis: European e-Justice Strategy 2024–2028. Competition and state aid Antitrust—Court of Justice clarifies jurisdiction in competition damages actions under Recast Brussels Regulation The Court of Justice delivered its...

The EU has set ambitious goals to realise ‘A Europe Fit for the Digital Age’, steering the Union’s digital transformation. Counted among the six European Commission priorities for 2019–2024, this Practice Note outlines the principal measures advanced by the Commission to meet this aim. For fuller detail on headline EU digital actions, see Practice Note: Key EU digital initiatives-summary. Timeline On 19 February 2020, the European Commission adopted ‘Shaping Europe’s Digital Strategy’, a policy roadmap for the Union’s digital overhaul. This was followed on 9 March 2021 by the Communication ‘2030 Digital Compass: the European way for the Digital Decade’ (Digital Compass Communication), which set out a vision to secure a successful EU digital transition by 2030. The 2030 targets rest on four cardinal points: digital skills digital infrastructures digitalisation of businesses digitalisation of public services That Communication was subsequently succeeded by the ‘Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030’, which translates the Compass into concrete digital targets to deliver...

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,...

Our reference: [ insert Authority's reference ] Your reference: [ insert enquirer’s reference ] [ Insert enquirer’s details and address ] [ Date ] Dear Dear [ insert organisation name ] [ Contract OR Framework ] for [ insert details ] (referred to as ‘the [ Contract OR Framework ] ’) OJEU Notice [ insert details ] Pre-Qualification Questionnaire Further to your request, please find the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) enclosed, to determine which organisations are invited [ to tender OR to negotiate OR to participate in dialogue ] for the [ Contract OR Framework ]...

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...