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This Practice Note contains a jurisdiction-specific Q&A guide to e-commerce in Austria published as part of the Lexology Getting the Deal Through series by Law Business Research (published: January 2020). Authors: DORDA—Axel Anderl; Andreas Zahradnik; Bernhard Müller; Paul Doralt; Christian Schöller; Elisabeth König; Nino Tlapak 1. How can the government’s attitude and approach to internet issues best be described? The recently elected Austrian government has announced it will: • support and enlarge its broadband strategy (including 5G technology); • affirm to EU’s net neutrality; • set up and support an Austrian Cloud solution that complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and data protection standards; • strengthen the Austrian Data Protection Authority; • support the Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive and Open Data Directive; • focus on AI and blockchain; and • support digitalisation and technical innovations. However, the new government in this regard will be measured not only on the basis of its composition and platform, but its actions. 2. What legislation governs business on the internet? In general, the provisions
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This Practice Note contains a jurisdiction-specific Q&A guide to insurance and reinsurance in Luxembourg published as part of the Lexology Getting the Deal Through series by Law Business Research (published: April 2022). Authors: Bonn & Schmitt—Chantal Keereman; Jean-Baptiste Meyrier 1. Identify the regulatory agencies responsible for regulating insurance and reinsurance companies. The Insurance Commission (CAA) is the official and exclusive regulatory authority in charge of the supervision of the insurance sector in Luxembourg. The CAA supervises Luxembourg-incorporated insurance, reinsurance undertakings and professionals of the insurance sector, as well as activities carried out in Luxembourg by foreign entities under the principle of freedom to provide services or to operate through branches located in Luxembourg. This supervision is performed on an ongoing basis, as the regulatory authority must ensure that the insurance and reinsurance undertakings subject to the Luxembourg legislation continue to comply with the conditions under which they are authorised to carry out their activities. 2. What are the requirements for formation and licensing of new insurance and reinsurance companies? Luxembourg insurance and reinsurance
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This Practice Note comprises two elements intended to assist dispute resolution practitioners in keeping up to date with developments in case law that affect their practice area, or which impact civil litigation procedure generally: • selected forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court are noted below; see Key forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court—2022 • summaries of the key appeal cases in England and Wales (ie decisions of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and, where relevant, some judgments of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Court of Justice of the European Union), and ECtHR, which we have reported; see: Key forthcoming appeal cases—2022 This content can be browsed through the table of contents in the left margin. Alternatively, this tracker can be searched using [CTRL]+[F]. This content is not intended to provide an exhaustive list of all appeals or key decisions relevant to dispute resolution practitioners. Key forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court—2022 Topics Case name and date of appeal, where known Details of appeal Further information/reading Tort
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ARCHIVED: One of the difficulties for dispute resolution practitioners is keeping up to date with developments in case law that affect their practice area, or, which impact civil litigation procedure generally. This Practice Note summarises the key appeal cases in England and Wales (ie decisions of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, and, where relevant, some judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice), which we have reported on, allowing users ease of access in finding those decisions, see: Key civil litigation appeals in review—2021. This content can be browsed through the table of contents in the left margin. Alternatively, this tracker can be searched using [CTRL]+[F]. In addition, this Practice Note covers a selection of forthcoming appeals, where known, to assist in horizon scanning. This content is not intended to provide an exhaustive list of all appeals and/or key decisions relevant to dispute resolution practitioners. Note: in relation to anonymity of natural litigants where a reference for a preliminary ruling is made to the Court of