EU Law weekly highlights—8 January 2026
This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses on the decision of the Court of Justice clarifying several fundamental aspects of EU design law on fashion trends and originality, on the Commission’s proposal to ease EU AI Act compliance regime for manufacturers of medical devices, and predictions on the enforcement of the EU Digital Services Act in 2026. In addition the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the Commission signed a Joint Declaration setting out the EU’s legislative priorities for 2026, the Commission renewed the UK adequacy decisions for EEA–UK personal data transfers, the Parliament adopted a legislative initiative report calling on the Commission to propose rules governing algorithmic management in EU workplaces, adopted an amendment to its Emissions Trading Scheme State aid Guidelines to address the increased carbon leakage risk, published a fitness check assessing the EU regulations on gas supply security and electricity risk preparedness, the Council has given final approval to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) simplification package, the Commission published a proposal for a regulation on compulsory licensing for crisis management and a proposal extending the Interim Regulation allowing certain online communication service providers to continue voluntarily detecting, reporting and removing child sexual abuse material on their services across the EU. Finally, the revisions to EU Deforestation Regulation, including postponement of application, was published in the Official Journal.