EU Newsletter

EU Newsletter · 30. June 2022

Easier access to corporate information for investors: Council agrees its position on a single access platform

Council agreed its position on the European single access point (ESAP) proposal, which is part of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) package.

EU Newsletter · 24. June 2022

Council and EP agreement on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive

New rules on corporate sustainability reporting: provisional political agreement between the Council and the European Parliament

EU Newsletter · 09. June 2022

ECB publishes its Survey on Access to Finance for Enterprises between October 2021 and March 2022

The results of the Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE) in the euro area for the period from October 2021 to March 2022 indicate that the recovery in firms’ economic activity continued but firms’ profitability was reduced by surging input costs.

EU Newsletter · 07. April 2022

State of play of the review of the NACE classification

The review of the NACE is now drawing to a close, and the current near-final version of the new NACE is presented in the enclosed Structure of the new NACE version document for your information.

EU Newsletter · 05. April 2022

EU and US agree on a principle-based Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework

The European Commission and the United States have agreed in principle on 25 March 2022 on a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework...

EU Newsletter · 25. March 2022

Artificial Intelligence

Strong debate and several reports in the European Parliament on the draft AI Act

EU Newsletter · 18. March 2022

Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)

EU Parliament adopts the JURI Committee report which clarifies obligations for companies’ sustainability reporting but leaves all SMEs out of the mandatory framework

EU Newsletter · 24. February 2022

EU Commission publishes the EU Data Act and a Staff Working Document on EU Data Spaces

This Data Act is a horizontal regulation which will be completed by sectoral regulation if needed. The aim of this regulation is to foster a fair access to EU data and to foster and boost data sharing in particular for industrial data. The Data Act proposes to increase data sharing possibilities between businesses (B2B) but also between businesses and governments (B2G)

EU Newsletter · 08. February 2022

ESMA becomes supervisor of EU Data Reporting Service Providers

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, on 1 January 2022 took on its new mandate as direct supervisor of the largest EU Data Reporting Service Providers (DRSPs).

EU Newsletter · 07. February 2022

Austrian Data Protection Authority rules that the use of Google Analytics is in breach of GDPR

In what can constitute a landmark decision on January 13th 2022, the Austrian Data Protection Authority ruled that the use of Google Analytics violates the EU General Data Protection Regulation.