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EU Law weekly highlights—13 June 2024

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Published on: 13 June 2024

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This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses of the Court of Justice’s judgments in Public Resource/Right to Know v European Commission on the overriding public interest in the publication of harmonised standards for compliance with EU law and in VT, UR v Conny GmbH on distance contract information obligations in case of conditional payments as well as commentary on online marketplaces being the next frontier under the EU Digital Services Act (EU DSA). This week, the Council of the EU adopted the retail investment package, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) and the European Commission launched two advice pilots for the Accelerating Clinical Trials (ACT EU) initiative and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 which establishes a list of High-Value datasets in the context of the EU Open Data Directive has started applying. In addition, the weekly highlights includes commentary on Meta’s new privacy policy which will be scrutinised by EU data protection authorities and the uncertainty over...

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