A number of EU companies, especially UK publishing companies, suffer from a vast counterfeiting and piracy activity in third countries that affects their markets on a large scale. China, India (...)
Read moreIn 2007, the EU and a number of other WTO members began work on a new international agreement – the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). This initiative is related both to the Lisbon Agenda (...)
Read moreSince the beginning of 2009, mainly due to budget concerns prompted by the economic and financial crisis, the governments of a number of EU and EEA Member States have been considering similar (...)
Read moreIn July 2008, the Commission adopted a proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2006/112/EC as regards reduced rates of VAT. The proposal included a series of technical adaptations to (...)
Read moreThe current EU regulation governing data retention is based on the Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC, which requires Member States to ensure that telecommunications service and network (...)
Read moreOn 21 April 2009 the European Commission published a Report and Green Paper on the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of (...)
Read moreThe current EU regulation governing data protection and privacy was created in 1995 (Data Protection Directive 1995/46/EC), and since then the rapid evolution of technology and the expansion of (...)
Read moreFollowing a Judgement from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) from 2005 clarifying the role of the European Commission in the enactment of criminal law provisions, in April 2006 a new draft (...)
Read moreIn April 2008, the European Commission finalised a new consultation aimed at deepening the understanding of the functioning of private copying levy schemes set up at national level. (...)
Read moreThe European Commission plans to propose a Directive on collective rights management establishing general rules for the operation of collecting societies. It is an initiative underpinning the (...)
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