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This topic contains information to help lawyers get up to speed with EU law and concepts, so they're confident about the subject, and can appropriately frame their advice.
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A broad range of trackers to stay on top of key legislation, consultations and cases across several topics including commercial, environment, energy, financial services and TMT.
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The EU Law module also includes Lexology Getting The Deal Through. Proprietary jurisdictional guides are available for the EEA Member States, giving lawyers an overview of applicable laws at national level.
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Lexis+® EU Law is an online practical guidance product for contentious and non-contentious lawyers giving advice to (and supporting) businesses and organisations operating across the EU.
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Latest EU Law News
Law360: The Unified Patent Court's (UPC) Local Düsseldorf Division has ruled that Curio Bioscience's Seeker Spatial Mapping Kits infringed patents by...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report setting out draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) concerning...
The Council of the EU and the European Parliament have provisionally agreed to amend the EU Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR)...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has launched a new Energy and AI Observatory to monitor and analyse the growing interconnections between...
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), through its Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) and Methodology Working Party (MWP), has published a...
Latest EU Law Practice Notes
The EU General Data Protection Regulation—application in the life sciences sectorThe General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (EU...
EU consumer protection cases trackerThe EU consumer protection cases tracker is intended to track key cases related to consumer law. It includes...
Harmonising insolvencies and restructurings in the EUWhy harmonisation is neededThe divergence between Member States' laws has an impact on:•the...
Voluntary environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) reportingTrend towards environmental, social governance or sustainability reportingThe...
EU competition law–cases tracker (2022–2024) [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained.This Practice Note tracks...
Latest EU Law Precedents
Training materials—the Vertical Agreements Block Exemption and Distribution Agreements (EU)This Precedent presentation has been designed as a training...
Insider list—section relating to deal specific insidersArticle 18(1) of the UK Market Abuse Regulation (Assimilated Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (UK...
Insider list—to be submitted by issuer of financial instruments admitted to trading on SME growth marketArticle 18(1) of the UK Market Abuse...
Insider list—section relating to permanent insidersArticle 18(1) of the UK Market Abuse Regulation (Assimilated Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (UK Market...
EU GDPR—clause to incorporate module four of the 2021 EU SCCs1In this [clause], 2021 EU SCCs means module four (processor to controller) of the...
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Harmonisation
HarmonisationDefinition of harmonisationHarmonisation, also known as standardisation or approximation, refers to the determination of EU-wide legally...
Indirect effect of EU law
Indirect effect of EU lawWhat is indirect effect of EU law?The doctrine of indirect effect, or consistent interpretation, is a duty that national...
The EU Commercial Agents Directive
The EU Commercial Agents DirectiveThis Practice Note considers Council Directive 86/653/EEC (OJ L 382/17), the EU Commercial Agents Directive. It...
Infringement proceedings against EU Member States
Infringement proceedings against EU Member StatesUnder Article 17(1) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), one of the European Commission’s core...
The supremacy of EU law
The supremacy of EU lawScope of supremacyAs originally drafted, the EU Treaties did not include any provision by which the supremacy, or as it is...
Commission requests further information on Meta's compliance with EU DSA
The European Commission has requested information from Meta regarding its compliance with obligations to give researchers access to publicly...
Brussels I (recast)—special jurisdiction (art 7)
Brussels I (recast)—special jurisdiction (art 7)This Practice Note looks at the special jurisdiction provisions in Article 7 of Regulation (EU)...
Free movement of EU workers and citizens
Free movement of EU workers and citizensEU workers and EU citizens enjoy the right of freedom of movement. This right is granted to EU workers in...
EU Renewable Energy Directive (EU) 2018/2001 (RED II)—snapshot
EU Renewable Energy Directive (EU) 2018/2001 (RED II)—snapshotThis Practice Note provides an outline of the Renewable Energy Directive (EU) 2018/2001...
Equivalence and effectiveness
Equivalence and effectivenessDevelopment of the principles of equivalence and effectivenessUnder the principle of procedural autonomy, in the absence...
Commission updates AI procurement model clauses following EU AI Act adoption
The European Commission has released updated model contractual clauses for artificial intelligence (AI) procurement on 5 March 2025,...
DORA—essentials
DORA—essentialsThis Practice Note outlines the key requirements of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (the Digital Operational Resilience Act or DORA) and...
Challenging EU Directives
Challenging EU DirectivesIn briefAccording to settled case law, the Court of Justice of the European Union has the exclusive competence to declare an...
Air passenger rights in the EU
Air passenger rights in the EUThis Practice Note provides an overview of air passenger rights in the EU. It provides guidance on the key definitions,...
The EU Regime relating to unit-linked insurance policies—essentials
The EU Regime relating to unit-linked insurance policies—essentialsThe benefits payable under long term or life assurance policies may be linked to...
Direct effect of EU law
Direct effect of EU lawWhat is direct effect of EU law?The doctrine of direct effect is a fundamental principle of EU law developed by the Court of...
MiFID II & MiFIR—pre- and post-trade transparency
MiFID II & MiFIR—pre- and post-trade transparencyThis Practice Note provides an overview of the pre- and post-trade transparency regime for...
The EU Cyber Resilience Act
The EU Cyber Resilience ActRegulation (EU) 2024/2847, the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a first of its kind EU legislation that imposes mandatory...
Associated legal terms
Entry into force
Date on which an EU act takes effect which is the date specified in it or, in the absence of such date, the twentieth day following that of its official publication or notification, as the case may be.
European constitution
The European Constitution, also known as the Constitutional Treaty, refers to the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, which has never entered into force.
Qualified majority
Qualified majority refers to the number of votes required for the Council of Minister to adopt a decision, unless the Treaty provides otherwise.
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