This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses on the Court of Justice’s ruling addressing the meaning of ‘promotional offer’ under EU E-Commerce Directive, the first Unified Patent Court’s infringement decision for second medical use claims and the transparency and disclosure obligations for AI Chatbots in consumer interactions. In addition this week, the Commission launched a consultation on high-risk AI classification and obligations, introduced the EU Sanctions Helpdesk, a free service providing sanctions compliance support to European small and medium-sized enterprise, adopted the European Ocean Pact, a comprehensive strategy designed to protect marine ecosystems, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association published a position paper in response to the Commission's sustainability omnibus package, the European Data Protection Board adopted final guidelines regarding data transfers to third country authorities, the Council of the EU adopted a new cyber crisis management blueprint to guide the EU’s collective response to large-scale cybersecurity incidents or crises and adopted its position on the revision of the EU regulations on air passenger rights and airline liability.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses on the Court of Justice’s decision that common law passing off rights based on use of a trade mark in the UK could not continue to be used as a valid basis of opposition to an EU trade mark application and on the second draft of the Code of Practice for AI content marking under the EU AI Act. In addition this week, the European Parliament approved a revised Framework Agreement governing its relations with the European Commission, approved the EU signature of the AI framework convention of the Council of Europe, published an update to its proposal on simplified rules for small ‘mid‑cap’ companies, endorsed the creation of the EU Talent Pool, a digital platform designed to match vacancies in EU-wide shortage occupations with non‑EU jobseekers, the Commission presented a package of measures to increase the EU’s energy independence and affordability, published recommendations on energy efficiency investments, the Council of the EU adopted amendments to the European Climate Law with a binding 2040 target, adopted its position on amendments to the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, and adopted a regulation establishing new rules to combat cross-border unfair trading practices in the agricultural and food supply chain.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes the European Parliament adopting a resolution that welcomes the detailed proposals from the Conference on the Future of Europe and sets the Parliament’s follow-up to the recommendations, the CJEU broadening the scope of the Zambrano caselaw, the European Parliament and Council reaching a provisional agreement on ‘daisy chain’ amendments to CRR and BRRD, the European Commission introducing an initiative for a new Cyber Resilience Act that is set to establish new cybersecurity rules for digital products and ancillary services and the ACER and CEER publishing a paper on the proposed revision of gas storage and security of supply regulation. The highlights further include the CJEU imposing EU consumer law obligation on third party suppliers, and the European Commission adopting measures relating to vertical block exemptions and vertical agreements in distribution.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes the European Commission publishing the competitiveness strategy report, signing the Council’s Framework Convention on AI and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law and hosting the first AI Board meeting. In addition, the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) has announced new rules for rabbit pyrogen tests (RPT), the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) have published guiding principles for using large language models (LLMs) and the Commission rescinds decisions regarding the Illumina/GRAIL Case.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses of Germany seeking a greater role for Member States in EU cybersecurity certification and a group of telecom companies seeking a clear legal basis to block CSAM websites. In addition this week, the EU Packaging Regulation came into application, the Commission published a draft delegated regulation establishing a methodology for calculating battery recycled content, the European Data Protection Supervisor issued an opinion on streamlining data protection rules for EU justice agencies, and the Commission opened a consultation on a draft delegated regulation concerning vineyard (re)planting authorisations and the EU Wine DataBank.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes the publication of the Commission’s 2025 Work Programme, the February 2025 infringements package, and Commission guidelines on the definition of AI systems under the EU AI Act. In addition, this week, the Commission announced an evaluation of the Geo-blocking Regulation, opened a public consultation on amendments to State aid rules concerning access to justice in environmental matters, proposed supplemental rules to the EU emissions trading system for aviation to accelerate take up of sustainable aviation fuels, announced a pilot programme for coordinated assessments of clinical investigations and performance studies, and issued a request to Shein to provide data on illegal content and goods. These weekly highlights also cover the launch of InvestAI, which aims to mobilise €200bn for AI investment across the EU, the launch of the 2025 SME Fund to support intellectual property protection, and an analysis of the global tariff of 25% reimposed on steel and aluminium exported to the US.

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 some EU AI Act terms.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analysis of the liability regime for AI-related products, AI copyright measures further diluted in EU Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models, the Commission Implementing Act setting out the establishment of independent experts on GPAI models, the Court of Justice’s decision on cross-border patent infringement, and the Advocate General’s opinion on an infringement claim of Lego's registered designs. In addition this week, the Commission released the monthly infringement package, proposed the Critical Medicines Act, consulted on draft State aid Framework supporting the Clean Industrial Deal, found widespread consumer law breaches, evaluated the Marine Strategy and Bathing Water Directives for improvement, and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations began legal proceedings to seek clarity on Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analysis that the Council of the EU reimposed a comprehensive set of restrictive measures against Iran. In addition this week, the European Commission announced that 21 European airlines agreed to modify their practices regarding environmental claims, opened an antitrust investigation to assess whether Deutsche Börse and Nasdaq breached EU competition rules, the European Data Protection Board adopted an opinion on the Commission’s draft adequacy decision on the level of protection of personal data in Brazil, launched a public consultation seeking input on which ready-to-use templates on the EU General Data Protection Regulation compliance, the Commission welcomed the judgment of the Court of Justice on Adequate Minimum Wages Directive, the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs has urged the Commission to propose legislation regulating the use of algorithmic management, the Commission published its 2025 State of the Energy Union and Climate Progress Reports, launched a call for participants in a Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Internet Standards Deployment, launched work on a code of practice for the marking and labelling of AI-generated content, the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change officially began, the Council of the EU reached an agreement to amend the European Climate Law, the Council and Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the CountEmissionsEU proposal and on the simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes details of consultations launched by the European Commission on the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation, a new roadmap for AI and digitalisation in the energy sector, future legislation governing carbon dioxide transportation infrastructure and markets, and a EU cardiovascular health plan. In addition this week, the Commission has published a study examining barriers to AI deployment in healthcare systems and the European Media Freedom Act entered into application, introducing new legal protections for media freedom, independence and pluralism across the EU. These highlights also include an analysis of recent confusion over AI model training data disclosure requirements pursuant to the EU AI Act.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes, the Internal Market Committee of the European Parliament adopting its position on European Standardisation rules, the Court of Justice’s decision in Fennia v Koninklijke Philips NV clarifying the concept of producer under the EU Product Liability Directive, the European Commission publishing its ‘Blue Guide 2022’ on product law, and the Council of EU adopting its decision on accession of the EU to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters. The highlights further include, the European Parliament adopting its position on REFuelEU aviation, the Agriculture Committee of the European Parliament adopting A New EU Forest Strategy for 2030, and the European Commission launching a consultation on compulsory licensing of patents.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes the final parliamentary endorsement of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) and analysis of the role of the EU AI Office. This week, the European Parliament has also adopted revisions to consumer protection rules for defective products damages, amendments to the Single Permit Directive, changes to the Waste Framework, Industrial Emissions, Energy Performance of Buildings Directives, new cyber resilience standards, and its first reading position on the proposed Green Claims Directive. These highlights also cover the Commission’s publication of a agri-food industrial ecosystem transition pathway and the March 2024 infringements package.