After years of consultation, drafting and negotiation, the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) was finally published in the EU's Official Journal on 12 July 2024. This marks a major step forward towards a more sustainable and secure future of AI, globally.Key rules and requirements1. Global reach: The EU Read More
The Representative Actions Directive (EU) 2020/1828 aims to ensure that consumers are able to protect their collective interests in the EU via representative actions, the legal actions brought by representative entities (so called qualified entities). It provides that all EU countries have in place a mechanism of representative actions. Read More
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Italy: The Italian government adopted urgent and extraordinary measures in relation to the judicial system, with specific provisions for civil, tax, criminal and administrative trials. In this section you will find all the relevant updates (contents are in Italian).
Il Decreto del Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri del 22 marzo 2020 prevede la sospensione (e quindi la chiusura) di tutte le attività produttive industriali e commerciali (salvo il caso in cui le stesse possano essere svolte in modalità a distanza o di lavoro agile) dal 23 marzo 2020 al Read More
Italy: The Italian government adopted urgent and extraordinary measures aimed at allowing companies to call ordinary shareholders' meetings within 180 days of the end of the financial year, as well as to facilitate the holding of shareholders' meetings, in compliance with the provisions aimed at reducing the risk of contagion (contents are in Italian).
Il Decreto Legge 17 marzo 2020, n. 18 (pubblicato in Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 70 del 17 marzo 2020), intitolato “Decreto Cura Italia”, prevede misure di potenziamento del servizio sanitario nazionale e di sostegno economico per famiglie, lavoratori e imprese connesse all’emergenza epidemiologica da Covid-19. Il Decreto “Cura Italia” interviene con Read More
The European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") has issued a decision temporarily requiring the holders of net short positions in shares traded on a European Union (EU) regulated market to notify the relevant national competent authority ("NCA") if the position reaches or exceeds 0.1% of the issued share capital after Read More
The European Court of Human Rights is taking a number of exceptional measures to respond to the unprecedented global health crisis, having regard to the recent decisions of the French authorities and the Council of Europe. The Court’s essential activities will in principle be maintained and especially the handling of Read More
