The Court of Justice of the European Union, following the opinion of the Advocate General, invalidated European Commission Decision 2000/520 dated July 27, 2000, which allowed transfers of personal data to US companies that self-certified under the US/EU Safe Harbor Program.
The first Post Danmark case in 2012 brought about a modest antitrust revolution on Article 102 applicable to discrimination. Rarefied economic concepts were confirmed. Price discrimination as a standalone abuse was all but confined to a historical footnote in antitrust textbooks, to be replaced by a predation type test.
With the anticipated publication of the European General Data Protection Regulation in 2016, multi-national companies are beginning to assess how the new Regulation will affect their global data protection and privacy compliance programs.
Following the recent amendments enacted by the Italian Government by Law no. 69 of May 27, 2015, Articles 2621, 2621-bis and 2622 of the Italian Civil Code (hereinafter “ICC”) do set forth the offense of imparting or conveying false corporate information (“false comunicazioni sociali”), providing for the criminal liability of…
The Commission has adopted amendments to a number of its key procedural rules in order to bring them…
On 1 July 2015, the Organic Law 7/2015 entered into force, which amends the Spanish Criminal Code, introducing,…
It is our pleasure to present the first edition of Baker McKenzie’s Global Overview of Anti-Bribery Laws Handbook (“Handbook”). Given the success of last year’s Overview of Anti-Bribery Laws in EMEA, we have now expanded our coverage to legislation and developments in 47 jurisdictions this year. We appreciate that it…
The recent reform of the Criminal Code (‘Reform’) specifically provides for corporate criminal liability, as contained in Article…
The Hungarian Parliament has recently adopted an amendment (Act No CXXIX of 2015) to the Information Act that…
This article summarizes the anti-corruption developments in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) during the first half of 2015. Recent trends in the EMEA region concern, above all, a strong dynamics to tighten legal provisions on anti-corruption legislation in the light of international recommendations by OECD and UN;…