Commercial weekly highlights—10 June 2021

Published on: 10 June 2021

Published by: LexisPSL

Commercial weekly highlights—10 June 2021
In this issue:
Advertising, marketing and sponsorship
ASA rulings—9 June 2021
CMA launches investigation into Facebook’s data use
Google settles French antitrust probe for $US 268m
ICO fines three companies for nuisance marketing
Brexit
Brexit Bulletin—Cabinet Office publishes policy paper on UK-EU relationship
Competition

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Commission seeks views on revising EU competition rules on horizontal agreements
Consumer protection
CMA opens enforcement cases into British Airways and Ryanair amid coronavirus (COVID-19)
CMA publishes responses to its consultation on algorithms and consumer harm
Contracts
Construing the meaning of a judicial order or injunction (SDI Retail Services Ltd v The Rangers Football Club Ltd)
Contract—sale of goods, identity of contracting parties (Fisken v Carl)
Guarantees, indemnities, set-off and variation (Brown-Forman Beverages Europe v Bacardi UK)
Jurisdiction challenge to a claim to recover an informal debt (Winslet v The Estate of Andreas Gisel)
Data protection
Commission publishes new SCCs for transfers of personal data outside the EEA
NOYB to launch plan to end deceptive cookie banners
E-commerce
European Commission launches framework for European Digital Identity
European Commission opens consultation on upcoming Data Act
ICANN seeks public comment on Phase 2A EPDP initial report
Digital Economy Act 2017 (Commencement of Part 3) Bill [HL]
Intellectual property
European Commission publishes guidance on Article 17 Copyright in Digital Single Market Directive
Government opens consultation on future of UK IP regime
IPO launches consultation on list of exceptions in CDPA 1988
International
Beyond Brexit—Truss delivers speech on UK’s new trade opportunities
Importing and exporting—post-Brexit transition guidance from Defra
Weekly roundup of HMRC post-Brexit import, export and customs guidance—7 June 2021
Supply of goods
European Commission launches consultation on standards for agricultural products
European Commission publishes initiative on product safety
Supply of services
The consequences of the Supreme Court decision in Uber
UK/EU divergence—have your say
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Article summary

This week’s edition of Commercial weekly highlights includes: news of the CMA’s investigation into the use of data by Facebook, analysis of the new EU GDPR standard contractual clauses for international transfers, guidance from the European Commission on Article 17 of the Digital Single Market Copyright Directive and analysis of the judgement of the Court of Appeal in SDI Retail Services Ltd v The Rangers Football Club Ltd on the meaning of a judicial order or injunction. Sign in or take a trial to read the full analysis.