This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses on Meta halting its AI tech debut after regulatory backlash, the EU Gigabit Infrastructure Act and the definitions of providers and deployers under the EU AI Act. This week, the Council of the EU has formally adopted the Nature Restoration Regulation and the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) Regulation. It has also agreed on its position on the EU Talent Pool proposal, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) enforcement rules, the Green Claims Directive, the Soil Monitoring Law, the Waste Framework Directive, the Detergents Regulation and the proposal to simplify financial reporting requirements. In addition, the amendments to the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement Annex IX, the Basel III reforms, the money-laundering and terrorist financing package, the Regulation streamlining procedures for changes to medicine approvals and the Regulation updating controls on food imports to protect public health have been published in the Official Journal.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes a detailed analysis of the potential impact of the EU’s omnibus sustainability package, an analysis of the Court of Justice’s decision on asymmetric jurisdiction clauses, and commentary on flexibility in the EU AI code of practice. In addition this week, the Council of EU adopted amendments to EU Benchmarks Regulation and the European Commission opened a consultation on the Cyber Resilience Act, launched the Steel and Metals Action Plan, and issued preliminary findings under the EU Digital Markets Act to Apple and Alphabet. The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators announced plans for the consolidation of EU power purchase agreement templates and European Parliament’s Civil Liberties committee approved the creation of the EU Talent Pool for non-EU worker recruitment.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analysis of the Court of Justice judgment in Inteligo Media on direct email marketing and ‘sale’ under the ePrivacy Directive, an AI-powered tool launched by the EU Intellectual Property Office, a German court ruling that OpenAI models and outputs infringed lyrics copyright and the Unified Patent Court granting a permanent injunction covering non-UPC and non-EU states. In addition this week, the European Commission published the Digital Package (including a Digital Omnibus, a Data Union Strategy and an European Business Wallet proposal) and the 2025–2030 Consumer Agenda, the Commission launched investigations under the EU Digital Market Act, the Council of the EU formally approved the delay of the implementation of the Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation for chemicals until 1 January 2028, the 'one substance, one assessment' legislative package streamlining chemical safety assessments, the European Parliament adopted its position on the Sustainability Omnibus (including major change to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive scope) and the EU climate law amendment with 90% emissions reduction target.

This week’s edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes the European Commission publishing its work programme for 2023, its State of the Energy Union 2022 report, and a new emergency Regulation to address high gas prices and ensure security of supply. The highlights further include commentary on the proposed Cyber Resilience Act, the revision of the Product Liability Directive and the proposed Artificial Intelligence Liability Directive, a new Regulation on machinery products and the digital transition as well as the EU approach to metaverse.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses of the Unified Patent Court’s decision over Dyson’s hair-curler product in Spain , a decision from the Court of Justice as to whether the proprietor of a national trade mark may prevent another party stocking infringing products in another country for the purpose of selling them into the country where the national trade mark is protected, and the study on Generative AI in the context of copyright. In addition this week, the European Economic and Social Committee published an opinion on the European Commission's proposed amendments to the EU's corporate sustainability reporting reforms, the Commission launched a consultation on two draft regulations on the amended Regulation (EU) 1227/2011 on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency (REMIT) to improve transparency and integrity in wholesale energy markets, and the European Chemicals Agency published an updated proposal to restrict per-and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances under REACH regulation.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes the European Commission’s adoption of the July Infringements package, the publication of a climate delegated act supplementing the EU Taxonomy Regulation in the Official Journal, the Council of the EU confirming its negotiating mandate on the proposed regulation on general product safety, adoption of an amendment to the State aid Temporary Crisis Framework, the adoption of criteria on cross-border cases and their strategic importance by the European Data Protection Board, and the launch of an EU-wide emergency gas reduction plan to prepare for gas supply cuts from Russia. The highlights further include the approval of an IPCEI hydrogen project under State aid rules, the Commission’s adoption of delegated and implementing regulations under the EU Crowdfunding Regulation, the renewal of the EU terrorist list for a further six months, and the grant of final approval by the Council of the EU to the Digital Markets Act.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analysis on the draft EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and the European Parliament’s adoption of the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) proposal, the Toy Safety Regulation, the Euro 7 Regulation and the Media Freedom Act Bill. This week, the Council of the EU has approved of the reform of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the EU, the anti-strategic lawsuits against public participation (Anti-SLAPP) Regulation, the EU Critical Raw Materials Act and adopted the Regulation to protect the wholesale energy market. In addition, the European Parliament and Council of the EU have agreed on new European Health Data Space (EHDS) rules and the European Commission has adopted an EU-wide scheme for rating sustainability of data centres.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses on EU progress towards ‘targeted’ legislation on AI and copyright, the Commission’s approval of a EU Designs Implementing Regulation, a revamp of EU telecom rules on ‘open internet’ principles, the implications of further delays to the Cloud and AI Development Act, and the Court of Justice’s decision on allowing news publishers to demand fair payment with social media companies. In addition this week, a joint letter was published by fossil fuel industry bodies calling for delays to the EU Methane Regulation, the EU Talent Pool Regulation was published in the Official Journal, and the Commission published its fifth State of the Schengen report, opened a consultation on the establishment of an EU Critical Raw Materials Centre, adopted an EU Fertiliser Action Plan, and launched a consultation on draft guidelines for the classification of high-risk AI systems under the EU AI Act.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analysis on the European AI Office’s draft General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court decision confirming its international jurisdiction, the judgment that 3D inhaler trade mark cannot be restored by Boehringer, the ruling that Ukraine border service cannot get an EU trade mark for its war slogan, Meta being fined €798m for tying marketplace ads to Facebook, and the role of acceptable use policies in AI, In addition, this week the 2025 EU annual budget was agreed, the Council of the EU adopted a regulation to shut down European Online Dispute Resolution platform, adopted a ban on forced labour products in Union market, and approved the certification framework for carbon removals, the European Parliament endorsed the postponement of the deforestation rules, the European Commission proposed a single digital portal for posted worker declarations, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act and EU Listing Acts were published in the Official Journal.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analysis on how the ISO 42001 standard may be utilised under the EU AI Act, the Unified Patent Court’s decision to narrow Abbott Diabetes Care’s injunction with respect to Ireland, and the European Commission’s draft findings of its anti-subsidy probe into Chinese battery electric vehicle imports. In addition, the European Systemic Risk Board has called for quicker access to granular data collected by the European Supervisory Authorities and the Commission requested further information from Meta on its compliance with obligations under the EU Digital Services Act to give researchers access to publicly accessible data.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes the publication of new Regulations governing F-gases and ozone depleting substances in the Official Journal and provisional political agreement being reached on the prolongation of an interim measure to tackle online child sexual abuse, revisions to the Ambient Air Quality Directive and on new EU carbon removals certification rules. In addition, the European Commission has opened its first in-depth investigation under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 (the FSR), the European Artificial Intelligence Office (EAIO) has been formally established, and the European Association of Medical devices Notified Bodies (Team-NB) has released a position paper with its recommendations on the classification of devices intended to detect the presence or the exposure to SARS-CoV-2 post-pandemic. Notable decisions in the courts this week include rulings on Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 (the Air Passengers Rights Regulation) and the validity of a Lego toy brick design.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes the publication of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council’s programme for the first half of 2026, publication of a new cybersecurity package aimed at addressing increasingly sophisticated cyber and hybrid threats facing the EU, and publication of a proposed EU Digital Networks Act to modernise, simplify and harmonise EU rules on electronic communications networks. In addition this week, the European Data Protection Board adopted a Joint Opinion on the Digital Omnibus on AI proposal, the European Parliament adopted its second-reading position on proposed changes to EU air passenger rights rules, the Council adopted an amendment to the Regulation governing the European High‑Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, and the European Parliament adopted their negotiating position on the proposed Critical Medicines Regulation. These highlights also include analyses on the Procedural Regulation on EU-wide procedural rules for the enforcement of the EU GDPR and Lego’s failure to persuade the General Court to reinstate design protections for one of its blocks.