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    10/10/2024
    Poland

    Poland steps up consumer protection on alcoholic beverages market

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    In early October 2024, Poland’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development issued a draft regulation introducing additional restrictions on the packaging of certain spirit drinks.The draft, which appeared on the website of the Governmental Legislation Centre, applies to spirit drinks falling under EU Regulation 2019/787, which include vodka, whisky, gin and liqueurs. However, beverages with an alcohol content of less than 15% will generally not be covered by the draft.With the proposed regulation, the Polish legislator is attempting to supplement regulations on the packaging of spirit...
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    10/10/2024
    United Kingdom

    Don’t leave today’s work for tomorrow? Employment Rights Bill published outlining employment related reform

    The Employment Rights Bill was published today running to more than 150 pages and containing 28 changes to employment law. There are no major surprises as most of the changes were trailed in the Labour Party Manifesto and to some extent in the King’s Speech in July, although there is some unexpected detail. Employers yet to take any steps to prepare for the trailed reform can take comfort in the fact that only a handful of smaller changes are expected in the short term, including the changes to flexible working, which are not groundbreaking.The much publicised ‘day one’ right...
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    10/10/2024
    Netherlands

    Netherland’s Consumer Authority publishes DSA guidelines for providers of online services

    In February 2024, the European Digital Services Act (DSA) was enacted. To help businesses understand this new regulation, in September 2024 the Authority for Consumer and Markets (ACM) released Guidelines on the DSA for providers of online services. These guidelines outline the types of services covered by the DSA, the rules that providers must follow and how to comply with these regulations.Digital Services Act The DSA seeks to create a secure, consistent, and reliable online environment. It introduces new regulations for providing intermediary services, classifying them into different...
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    10/10/2024
    United Kingdom

    Recoveries in assigned claims not limited to the shortfall in administration: Manolete Partners plc v Norman Freed & Ors [2024] EWHC 2242 (Ch)

    The recent High Court judgment in Manolete Partners plc v Norman Freed & Ors [2024] EWHC 2242 (Ch) provides useful clarification to office-holders (and assignees of claims), as to when they will be entitled to pursue the full amount of losses - rather than limiting claims to the shortfall in the relevant estate.BackgroundOn 19 July 2022, Manolette Partners plc (“Manolete”) issued proceedings against Norman Freed, Key People Limited (“KPL”) and Achieva Group Limited (“AGL”), having taken an assignment of the relevant claims from the administrators of Just...
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    10/10/2024
    Belgium

    Artificial intelligence and copyright: what are AI companies allowed to do?

    Having addressed the issue of copyright protection of the output of generative AI tools (such as whether AI-generated content can be protected by copyright), this article explores the issue of the use of copyright protected material as input data for training these tools.Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content, such as text, images, videos, audio or software code, in response to user prompts. Generative AI models (like those used by OpenAI’s ChatGPT) are trained with a large amount of publicly available data. A common method of collecting this data is...
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    10/10/2024
    China

    China Releases Practical Guide for Identifying Sensitive Personal Information

    On 14 September 2024, the National Technical Committee 260 on Cybersecurity of Standardization Administration of China (“TC260”) released TC260-PG-20244A Practical Guide to Cybersecurity Standard - Guide for Identifying Sensitive Personal Information (v1.0-202409) (“Guide”). The Guide aims to facilitate companies to identify sensitive personal information by providing relevant identification rules alongside specific examples. Please see our newsletter here with a brief introduction. 
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