DATA PROTECTION

Belgian Data Protection Authority: the GDPR also applies to the personal data of unborn children.

On 18 December 2025, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (decision no. 146/2024) issued a formal reprimand against a hospital for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...

22/12/2025

DATA PROTECTION

EU Commission: the adequacy decision for the transfer of personal data to the United Kingdom renewed for a further six years.

The European Commission has renewed the two 2021 adequacy decisions enabling the free flow of personal data with the United Kingdom. These decisions ensure that personal data can continue to flow ...

19/12/2025

DATA PROTECTION

Court of Justice of the EU: where a bodycam is used during ticket inspections, certain information must be provided immediately to the passenger concerned.

A public transport company in Stockholm (Sweden) equips its ticket inspectors with body-worn cameras to record passengers during ticket inspections. The Swedish data protection authority imposed a ...

18/12/2025

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY LAW

Court of Justice of the EU: the exploitation of collective works must not be hindered by formalities that restrict the protection of copyright.

The rules governing the admissibility of an action for infringement of copyright in a collective work must ensure respect for the right to effective judicial protection, avoiding procedures that are ...

18/12/2025

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

EU Commission: Legal Desk service on the Data Act launched.

The Data Act Legal Helpdesk provides direct assistance to companies, public authorities and other organisations that have questions about how to apply Regulation 2023/2854 (Data Act). The Commission ...

17/12/2025

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY LAW

EU Court of Justice: the protection of utility objects offered by copyright is subject to the same requirements as for other objects.

Two furniture manufacturers allege, before the courts in Sweden and Germany respectively, that two furniture dealers infringed their copyright in relation to certain pieces of furniture. The Swedish ...

17/12/2025

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

AESIA publishes the "AI Act Guides": 16 operational documents (plus checklists) to translate Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 into technical and governance measures.

On the portal of the AESIA – Agencia Española de Supervisión de Inteligencia Artificial a structured collection of practical materials ("Guides") is available designed to accompany companies and ...

16/12/2025

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

EU–Canada: a Digital Partnership and two Memorandums on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Identity have been signed.

The European Commission has announced that the European Union and Canada strengthened digital cooperation at the first EU–Canada Digital Partnership Council, held in Montreal, to coincide with the ...

16/12/2025

DATA PROTECTION

Regulation (EU) 2025/2518 has been published in the Official Journal: new procedural rules for "cross-border" GDPR cases.

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has launched a public consultation on Recommendations 2/2025 dedicated to the legal basis for imposing the creation of mandatory user accounts on e-commerce ...

15/12/2025

DATA PROTECTION

European Data Protection Board: a public consultation has been launched until 12 February 2026 on the "Recommendations 2/2025 on the legal basis for the obligation to create user ac-counts on e-commerce sites".

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has launched a public consultation on Recommendations 2/2025 dedicated to the legal basis for imposing the creation of mandatory user accounts on e-commerce ...

15/12/2025

DATA PROTECTION

Simplification Law 2025: tightening on the legal bases for judicial data.

The Simplification Law 2025 (Law 182/2025) intervenes on the regulation of the processing of data relating to criminal convictions and offences in the Privacy Code, restricting the scope for ...

10/12/2025

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Towards the Cloud and AI Development Act: the EU prepares an action on data centres, cloud and computing capacity for AI.

The EU Commission is working on a possible Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), with the aim of strengthening the European capacity of data centres and cloud services as an enabling condition for the ...

10/12/2025

DATA PROTECTION

EU Court of Justice: the operator of a website is responsible for the processing of personal data contained in the ads published on its platform and cannot invoke the absence of the gen-eral obligation of surveillance for hosting service providers.

In its judgment C-492/23 - Russmedia Digital and Inform Media Press , the Court of Justice of the EU dealt with the following case.Russmedia Digital, a company incorporated under Romanian law, is the ...

02/12/2025

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Council of State: the consent of the PA and a limitation on decision-making automation are needed for the use of Artificial Intelligence in public procurement.

The recent ruling no. 8092/2025 of the Council of State offers a very clear signal to those working in the procurement sector: artificial intelligence can enter public tenders, but only if the public ...

02/12/2025

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

European Banking Authority – EBA: new package 4.2 for DORA reporting.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published the final technical package for version 4.2 of its supervisory reporting framework , with application from December 2025. This is an important step ...

02/12/2025