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 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 the delivery of the Commission President’s 2026 State of the Union Address, the announcement of plans for a new European Innovation Act, and the adoption of a Fair Labour Mobility legislation package. In addition this week, Parliamentary Committee MEPs adopted their position on revisions to the EU SFDR, the Commission called for global agreement on controls over advanced AI models, and reporting duties imposed by the EU Cyber Resilience Act began to apply. Finally this week, the European Parliament adopted its positions on changes to the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism and linked Temporary Decarbonisation Fund, the revision of the TEN-E Regulation governing European energy infrastructure, and on changes to the ETS II market stability reserve.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes news analyses on a decision of the General Court rejecting a challenge against the trans-Atlantic data transfer agreement, a decision of the High Court of Justice of Galicia, Spain ruling in favour of residents and consumer associations in a landmark environmental case, the protection for EU farmers following the Mercosur deal, a decision of the Court of Justice ruling that experts is not needed to weigh design rights in Lego and trade marks law under Directive on empowering consumers for the green transition. In addition this week, the European Commission President delivered the 2025 State of the Union address, the Court of Justice dismissed Austria's challenge on nuclear and gas inclusion in sustainable investment taxonomy, the Council of the EU adopted its position on the Commission’s Omnibus III legislative package related to the simplification of the CAP, the Commission launched a consultation on AI transparency rules, the European Parliament adopted its final position on targeted revisions to the EU Waste Framework Directive, adopted its initial negotiating position on a new Regulation for vehicle design and on end-of-life management and approved amendments to the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes a vote by the European Parliament approving the postponement of application of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, the Commission’s publication of its AI Continent Action Plan, and provisional political agreement on a regulation governing microplastics. This week’s highlights also include analyses on a court decision on compensation for non-material damages resulting from unlawful transfers of personal data, the fine issued to two subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank AG in a key greenwashing case, and the opinion of Advocate General Spielman on when stocking goods can be an infringing use of a trade mark, and the applicability of the EU AI rulebook. Finally this week, the Commission released an updated version of the Model Contractual Clauses for AI Procurement, the Commission published a statement on the implementation of sanctions, and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) issued a warning on risks to the industry resulting from US tariffs.

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.

This week’s edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes, the European Commission opened a consultation on guidelines under the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and adopted a recommendation on PFAS monitoring in feed. The Council of the EU and the European Parliament also reached provisional agreements on the ETS2 market stability reserve, Chemicals Omnibus simplification measures, plant reproductive material rules and revised air passenger rights rules. In addition, the Parliament approved new rules to strengthen farmers' contractual position and the text of the Digital Omnibus on AI proposal amending the EU AI Act, as provisionally agreed with the Council. The Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU also published its programme, and the European Data Protection Board published a common template for personal data breach notifications for public consultation.

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

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 provisional agreement of the European Parliament and Council of the EU on new rules for platform workers and the Mercury Regulation. In addition, this week the European Parliament’s committees endorsed the provisional agreement on the EU artificial intelligence (AI) Act, and adopted position on the revised EU Toy Safety Directive and on new rules on the supply of patented products in emergencies. The Parliament’s committees also adopted position on the Green Claims Directive and on the revised Waste Framework Directive.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes the Council of the EU's final adoption of the new European Media Freedom Act, a new Environmental Crime Directive, revisions to the European digital identity (eID) framework, a new Geographical Indications (GI) Regulation and revisions to the Waste Shipment Regulation. In addition this week, the Interoperable Europe Act has been published in the Official Journal of the EU, the Court of Justice has rejected the order to suspend Amazon's obligations under the EU Digital Services Act (EU DSA), and the European Commission has launched an investigation into five gatekeepers under the EU Digital Markets Act (EU DMA).

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analysis on the Court of Justice decision on the interpretation of ‘overriding mandatory provisions’ under Article 16 of Rome II, Advocate General Szpunar’s opinion on EU copyright protection for non-EU designs, the amendments to EU’s digital rulebook and customs union, LinkedIn’s €310m fine for breaches of the EU GDRP. In addition, this week the European Commission adopted the 2024 Enlargement Package and launched consultations on authorisation rules for EU carbon border adjustment mechanism declarants and the draft Delegated Regulation on data access for research, the European Parliament passed a resolution citing ‘urgent need’ for revision of the Medical Devices Regulation and the In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation, , and COP16 discussions continued.