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This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analysis on data protection concerns of the Chinese generative AI model DeepSeek and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and European Central Bank’s proposals to close insurance protection gap. In addition, this week the European Commission introduced the competitiveness compass, opened consultations on four draft implementing acts for the Net Zero Industry Act and published the Platform on Sustainable Finance report, the Dutch Supervisory Authority imposed a €4.75m fine on Netflix for EU General Data Protection Regulation breaches and the European Medicines Agency published guidelines on the use of Specific Adverse Reaction Follow-up Questionnaires.
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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes High Court decisions on the ‘fault grounds’ for opposing a new lease under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and on drainage rights, a summary of recent measures and guidance on coronavirus (COVID-19), an analysis of the Supreme Court’s judgment in the coronavirus business interruption test case, and Upper Tribunal decisions on residential service charge demands and the effect of the acquisition of the right to manage.
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This Resource Note highlights relevant commentary, analysis and resources to assist with the interpretation of, and provide practical guidance on the application of, Chapter 2 of the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules (DTR 2) Materials covered in this Resource Note include, where relevant: • the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Handbook • FCA guidance in its Knowledge Base—Procedural notes and Technical notes (which constitute formal guidance and are binding on the FCA) • FCA consultation papers, discussion papers, policy statements, feedback statements and warnings • Primary Market Bulletins and other FCA publications • former UKLA technical and procedural notes and the UKLA's newsletter List!, where still relevant to the interpretation or application of a provision • assimilated EU legislation • EU Directives and EU Regulations, where relevant to interpretation of a provision • Lexis+® UK analysis and resources Setting the scene • What it covers: DTR 2 sets out the requirements relating to the disclosure and control of inside information by an issuer to promote prompt and fair disclosure
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This Resource Note highlights relevant commentary, analysis and resources to assist with the interpretation of, and provide practical guidance on the application of, UKLR 6 of the UK Listing Rules which sets out requirements with continuing application for a company listed in the equity shares (commercial companies) category (also referred to as the commercial companies category). Materials covered in this Resource Note include, where relevant: • the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Handbook • FCA guidance in its Knowledge Base—Procedural notes and Technical notes (which constitute formal guidance and are binding on the FCA) • FCA consultation papers (CP), discussion papers (DP), policy statements (PS) and feedback statements (FS) • Primary Market Bulletins and other publications of the FCA • former UKLA technical and procedural notes and the UKLA's newsletter List!, where still relevant to the interpretation or application of a provision • assimilated EU legislation • EU Directives and EU Regulations, where relevant to interpretation of a provision • Lexis+® UK Practical Guidance and Lexis+® Research resources UKLR 6—Setting the scene • What
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This Resource Note outlines the main provisions of Chapter 4 of the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules (DTR 4), which deals with the periodic financial reporting requirements for an issuer whose transferable securities are admitted to trading on a UK regulated market. It highlights relevant commentary, analysis and resources to assist with the interpretation of, and provide practical guidance on the application of DTR 4. Materials covered in this Resource Note include, where relevant: • the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Handbook • FCA guidance in its Knowledge Base—Procedural notes and Technical notes (which constitute formal guidance and are binding on the FCA) • FCA consultation papers, discussion papers, policy statements, feedback statements and warnings • Primary Market Bulletins and other FCA publications • former UKLA technical and procedural notes and the UKLA's newsletter List!, where still relevant to the interpretation or application of a provision • assimilated EU legislation • EU Directives and EU Regulations, where relevant to interpretation of a provision • Lexis+® UK analysis and resources Setting the scene • What
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This week's edition of Public Law weekly highlights includes a hand-picked summary of news analysis, legal updates and case law from the world of Public Law. These highlights include the latest updates on Brexit, equality and human rights, public procurement, constitutional and administrative law, judicial review, state security and intelligence, subsidy control and State aid, information law and other Public Law news. This edition features the latest updates on UK Common Frameworks, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry’s stark findings on healthcare system resilience, the ECtHR’s rejection of a discrimination challenge to the benefit cap affecting lone parents of infants in DA and RA v UK, fresh calls for constitutional guardrails against government by executive power, and new measures to widen SME access to public contracts, plus the latest case updates and analysis.
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This week's edition of Public Law weekly highlights includes: news of the bilateral treaty between the UK and Mauritius to secure UK-US military operations on Diego Garcia, and update to the Cabinet Office guidance page on the National Security Unit for Procurement and analysis of the Teal Book—guidance published following the merging of the National Infrastructure Commission and Infrastructure and Projects Authority into the National Infrastructure and Service Authority (NISTA). Also in this edition, updates on a fresh legal challenge over the Supreme Court's decision in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers, a joint letter criticising the role and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, plus details of a free webinar on judicial review. Case updates this week include a number of judicial review and freedom of information decisions. This edition features further updates on Brexit, state security and intelligence, constitutional and administrative law, equality and human rights, projects and infrastructure, public procurement, information law, judicial review, subsidy control and State aid.
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the In-house weekly highlights, a curated summary of news analysis and new content from across the legal landscape. These highlights focus on key risk & compliance, commercial, corporate, information law and employment developments that will be relevant to most in-house lawyers.
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This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses on the European Commission’s 2026 priorities for implementing the EU AI Act, and the EU's draft Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content. In addition this week, the Commission introduced an information and communication technologies (ICT) Supply Chain Security Toolbox, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published a joint opinion on the Commission's Digital Omnibus proposal, the EDPB published its Work Programme for 2026–27, issued an Opinion on the Commission's proposal to extend data processing rules for combating child sexual abuse material online, the Council of the EU formally adopted a Directive updating the list of pollutants affecting surface water and groundwater, the European Parliament adopted a legislative resolution approving the codification of the Regulation on European Union designs, adopted new measures to strengthen protection for farmers against cross-border unfair trading practices, the Commission opened formal proceedings against Shein under the EU Digital Services Act for alleged violations relating to addictive design, and reported that, two years after the EU DSA began to apply, online platforms in the EU have reversed nearly 50 million content moderation decisions following user appeals.
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This Practice Note contains a jurisdiction-specific Q&A guide to financial services compliance in Portugal published as part of the Lexology Getting the Deal Through series by Law Business Research (published: August 2021). Authors: Uría Menéndez—Miguel Stokes; Bruno Silva Palhão 1. What national authorities regulate the provision of financial products and services? In Portugal, the financial sector is supervised and regulated in line with the specialised or institutional model, according to which each of the banking, insurance and securities markets are supervised and regulated by a specialist institution, as opposed to the 'twin peaks' system. The Bank of Portugal supervises credit institutions (including banks), financial companies, payment institutions, electronic money institutions offering retail banking products and services, and credit intermediaries. The Securities Commission (CMVM) regulates the markets in financial instruments, as well as the entities that act therein and the undertakings for collective investments. Lastly, the Supervisory Authority for Insurance and Pension Funds (ASF) regulates insurance and reinsurance companies, pension funds and their management companies, as well as insurance mediation. The regulation of the provision of financial
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This Practice Note contains a jurisdiction-specific Q&A guide to financial services compliance in Malta published as part of the Lexology Getting the Deal Through series by Law Business Research (published: August 2021). Authors: Fenech & Fenech Advocates—Josianne Brimmer 1. What national authorities regulate the provision of financial products and services? The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) is the single financial services regulator in Malta, charged with both the authorisation and ongoing supervision of operators within the whole spectrum of financial services. The MFSA regulates credit institutions, financial institutions (eg, payment service providers and e-money institutions), investment services providers (eg, Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 2014/65/E (MiFID) firms), collective investment schemes, trustees, fiduciaries and corporate services providers. The MFSA has entered into several memoranda of understanding with local regulatory or semi-regulatory authorities for the purposes of establishing a framework for cooperation, mutual assistance and exchange of information, intended to facilitate them in the discharge of their respective duties. The memoranda are in place between the MFSA and the Malta Business Registry, the Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations,
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This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses of the EU design reform and EU-US data transfers facing new pressure after US Supreme Court ruling. In addition this week, the European Commission released July 2026 infringement package, published EU Action Plan on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, sought views on the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act and EU Chips Act 2.0, and adopted revised sustainability reporting standards. The European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy Committee also approved Parliamentary position on European Grids Package and its Environment, Climate and Food Safety Committee adopted position on changes to the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Finally this week, the European Parliament approved revised social security coordination rules for EU mobile workers and revised EU air passenger rights rules.