Roughly 70% of notifications used the CCPC’s simplified procedure (63 cases), indicating ongoing extensive reliance on a fast-track route for unproblematic transactions. Overall, in total, average clearance periods were around 40 calendar days; simplified reviews averaged about 16 calendar days, and the longest case, concluded in 2025, required 344 calendar days......

EU Member States are facing a challenge to ensure smooth cross-sectoral and cross-border co-operation between the regulators tasked with enforcing the bloc EU's AI law, with no easy solution to navigate the complexity. Timetables for crucial elements of the EU AI Act have already slipped. Most EU countries failed to meet August 2025’s deadline to establish national authorities to oversee rules for high-risk AI systems. Setbacks in creating compliance tools, including technical standards, have led the European Commission to suggest postponing the high-risk regime, thereby granting Member States additional time to ready their governance arrangements. The EU AI Act leaves it to national governments to decide how to organise AI oversight, resulting in enforcement duties being spread across a mix of data protection authorities, telecom regulators, cybersecurity agencies and other regulatory bodies. “The institutional structures vary in each country, and we need to respect them,” said...

Meta Platforms, TikTok, X and Amazon are now well used to the steady rhythm of enforcement under the EU's content-moderation law, but are increasingly encountering private actions that seek remedies for alleged shortcomings. Such claims were always envisaged by the EU's Digital Services Act (EU DSA), operating alongside public oversight by the European Commission and national regulators, and they are now emerging as a growing exposure for Big Tech platforms. Most of the EU DSA lawsuits disclosed to date have been brought by advocacy groups and consumer organisations in Germany and the Netherlands, and have been filed in national courts (see here, here and here). As a result, these first decisions take effect only at the national level. One example is a recent Dutch ruling in summary proceedings that compelled Meta to offer Facebook and Instagram users a...

According to an internal memo, EU capitals have challenged the Commission’s method for deferring the start of key obligations under the bloc’s AI rulebook. Their concerns focus on suggested postponement of the entry into application of core legal requirements. Previous month, Commission unveiled a bundle of tweaks to the EU AI Act—dubbed the digital omnibus on AI—which in turn would push back the moment when duties for providers of high‑risk AI systems begin to apply. This long‑anticipated hold‑up stems from setbacks in drafting the technical standards needed to operationalise the rules for companies, and from slow progress in setting up competent national authorities. Yet the Commission’s chosen route has prompted a series of pressing and urgent queries, signalling increased legal uncertainty for businesses......