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Commercial weekly highlights—28 March 2024

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Published on: 28 March 2024

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Advertising, marketing and sponsorship
Social media is inappropriate for complex financial products, UK’s FCA warns
ASA rulings—27 March 2024
CMA releases letter to fashion businesses following investigation into environmental claims
Consumer protection
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Data protection
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Deadline for transitional arrangements allowing contracts to rely on 'old EU SCCs' for UK GDPR compliant international data transfers
E-commerce

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Article summary

This week's edition of Commercial weekly highlights includes: commentary on the Supreme Court in Lifestyle v Amazon which considers whether Amazon’s territory-specific targeting of consumers in the UK amounted to a trade mark infringement, notice that the transitional period for UK businesses relying on the ‘old EU SCCs’ concluded on 21 March 2024, and news of the publication of the Competition and Markets Authority’s open letter to fashion businesses following its investigation into environmental claims.

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