08 Mar, 2024 New Law on Greenwashing finally adopted – The EU Directive on empowering consumers for the green transition By Tobias Timmann Nicolai Fornoff While the ‘Green Claims Directive’ is the dominant topic as pertains to regulatory developments concerning unfair competition law but has...
07 Mar, 2024 UK Government concludes its consultation on consumer information transparency and makes proposals to update the DMCC Bill By Andrew Austin Kate Collister In brief: The Department for Business & Trade (DBT) has recently published the Government’s outcomes from its consultation on ‘Smarter...
01 Mar, 2024 Text of the new EU Product Liability Directive is agreed – what happens next? By Harriet Hanks Andrew Austin In brief: The text of the revised new EU Product Liability Directive (PLD) has now been agreed. After intense negotiations resulting in...
08 Jan, 2024 The Italian Annual Law on Competition: what’s new? By Gian Luca Zampa Ermelinda Spinelli Alessandro Di Giò Cecilia Carli Irene Indino +2 more... Show less The reform of Italian competition and consumer protection laws – which have already been significantly amended over the past two years –...
03 Jan, 2024 Mind the UK ‘advice gap’: Considering the Advice Guidance Boundary Review By Elisabeth Overland Christopher Bernard Billy Liu On 8 December 2023, HM Treasury (HMT) and the FCA published a joint policy paper (DP23/5) on the Advice Guidance Boundary Review (the...
08 Dec, 2023 Not over yet: UK DMCC Bill enters the House of Lords with some key questions still up for debate By Sharon Malhi Rikki Haria Sarah Jensen Martin Dickson Abigail Legge Milo Noone +3 more... Show less The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the Bill) is still expected to come into force in Autumn 2024. Although the overall...
26 Oct, 2023 UK CMA proposes changes to the law concerning fake reviews, pricing, subscriptions and greenwashing By Andrew Austin Kate Collister Karishma Paun In brief: The flagship Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the DMCC Bill) is progressing through the Houses of Parliament...
29 Sep, 2023 Redress Action in Germany – the new kid on the block? By Moritz Becker Martina de Lind van Wijngaarden Roman Mallmann Martin Mekat Michael Rohls Patrick Schroeder Elisabeth Weber Stefanie Fay Stephan Hofer Johanna Möller +7 more... Show less The German Federal Council (Bundesrat) has finally cleared the path for the German implementation of the European Representative...
21 Sep, 2023 Will the UK follow the EU’s lead in reforming product liability rules? By Harriet Hanks Andrew Austin Emma Franck-Gwinnell In summary: We recently wrote about the UK Government’s wide-ranging consultation on reforming the UK consumer product safety framework...
07 Jul, 2023 Feels like MiFID III? - The Commission Proposal on the EU Retail Investment Strategy and what it means for firms By Marius Raetz Falko Glasow Alicia Hildner Alexander Glos +1 more... Show less In the heated discussion around the ban on payment for order flow, the proposal on the Retail Investment Package (the Proposal), adopted...
26 Apr, 2023 The wait is over: UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill introduced to Parliament By Sharon Malhi Michele Davis Karen Slaney Justin Chen +1 more... Show less After months of waiting, the UK government has now introduced into Parliament the text of the hotly anticipated Digital Markets,...
20 Apr, 2023 Green light for new product safety rules affecting online marketplaces By Andrew Austin Hannah Walker Gore Victor Garcia Lopez Rachel Duffy +1 more... Show less In brief: The EU legislators have now reached agreement on the final text of the new General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR), which will...