Portability Directive meaning

In this issue: Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Consumer protection Contracts Data protection International Supply chain LexTalk®Commercial: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q&As Advertising, marketing and sponsorship ASA Ruling—25 June 2025 Three objections were lodged with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about statements on the website of Bodystreet Franchise (UK) Ltd, a fitness studio promoting Electro Muscle Stimulation (EMS) training. The ASA upheld all three challenges. See: LNB News 25/06/2025 44. CMA proposes strategic market status designation for Google's search services The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened a consultation on designating Google with strategic market status for general search and search advertising under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. Proposed interventions include compulsory choice screens for search providers, fair ranking obligations, enhanced publisher controls, and data portability measures. The scope would cover Google’s...

In this issue: Commercial Competition and state aid Corporate Data protection and cybersecurity Dispute Resolution Free movement, immigration and employment Financial services Energy Environment Insurance and reinsurance IP Life sciences Regulatory TMT Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Commercial Commission launches consultation on revised unfair trading practices directive The European Commission has opened a public consultation to update EU rules tackling unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships within the agricultural and food supply chain. The initiative seeks to account for shifting market dynamics and emerging practices, promote fairer dealings across the chain, and answer farmers’ calls for a fairer food system. The review is guided by an evaluation of existing EU rules on business-to-business unfair trading practices and the Vision for Agriculture and Food framework. As part of its Work Programme and REFIT initiative, the Commission plans to present a proposal for...

This Practice Note sets out the principal Irish legal and regulatory points a website operator should consider when running a site, such as: The type and functionality of the website Information disclosure requirements Consumer protection Privacy and data protection Cookies Accessibility Cybersecurity Platform-to-business Online payments Advertising, promotions and direct marketing Competition law Taxation Liability for third party content Intellectual property and respecting copyright Geographic and territorial considerations Consideration of electronic data interchange (EDI) arrangements, blockchain, smart contracts or sector-specific laws or regulations, including those applicable to financial services, intermediation services or online auctions, is outside the scope of this Practice Note. The type and functionality of the website Applicable compliance duties and rules differ according to a site’s nature, functionality or purpose. Pinpointing these characteristics is the crucial first step for an operator to establish its Irish legal and compliance obligations. For example, is the website ‘information only’;...

STOP PRESS: On 19 June 2025, the Data (Use and Access) Bill obtained Royal Assent, becoming the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA 2025), with elements taking effect that day. Measures addressing, among other things, responses to data subject access requests and the grant of powers to make further regulations commenced immediately on 19 June 2025. Other elements, including notices issued by the Information Commissioner and certain facets of law enforcement processing, began on 19 August 2025, two months after Royal Assent. The bulk of DUAA 2025 requires additional regulations, in the form of statutory instruments, before those provisions can start. Part 5 of DUAA 2025 revises aspects of the UK’s data protection and ePrivacy framework, covering the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, SI 2003/2426. Most of Part 5’s measures take effect on 5 February 2026 by virtue of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note is archived and is no longer maintained. It concerns Directive 2002/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on universal service and users’ rights in relation to electronic communications networks and services, as revised by Directive 2009/136/EC (the Universal Service Directive). It forms part of a suite of Practice Notes addressing the key components of the EU regulatory regime for electronic communications. Across the EU, the operation of electronic communications networks and services in each Member State is subject to a shared regulatory system that initially consisted of five directives (the Framework). The Framework’s purpose was to create a harmonised regime for regulating electronic communications networks and services across the EU. In December 2018, Directive (EU) 2018/1972 establishing the European Electronic Communications Code (Recast) (the European Electronic Communications Code) was published in the Official Journal of the EU and entered into force three days later. The European Electronic Communications Code consolidates four of the directives (including the Universal Service Directive)...