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DLA Piper GDPR and Data Breach Survey 2024

2023 was a record year for GDPR enforcement with aggregate fines increasing by more than 14% to EUR 1.78bn and a new record fine of EUR 1.2bn levied against Meta

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Markets in crypto-assets regulation (MiCA): The scope is in …

Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 of the European Parliament and of the Council of …

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DORA implementation in Luxembourg

The Luxembourg law implementing certain aspects of the Digital Operational …

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CSSF Circular 18/698: impact on IT organisation and (cloud based) outsourcing for investment fund managers

IT is key. This is not the slogan of an IT service provider but one of the lessons to be drawn from the CSSF Circular 18/698. Investment fund managers…

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GDPR in Luxembourg : the date protection act

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) took direct effect in Luxembourg on 25 May 2018, but since it allows EU Member States latitude in spec…

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Respect the GDPR - prevention is better than cure

On 25 May 2018, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with rega…

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Monitoring at the workplace: a new legal framework in Luxembourg

If the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) harmonizes the data protection rules across Europe, it also leaves room for EU Member States to provi…

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Luxembourg Law complementing the GDPR

The Regulation (EU) 2016/679  of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and …

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CJEU further clarifies key concepts of data protection law

On 10 July 2018, the EU Court of Justice rendered a judgement in a case relating to the data processing activities of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Communit…

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Implementation into Luxembourg law of EU Directive 2016/943 on trade secrets

Although the implementation should have been enacted by 9 June 2018, Luxembourg has finally published, on 13 August, the first draft bill implementing…

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Debranding Before Import Not Allowed

The CJEU sided with Mitsubishi and ruled that a trade mark proprietor has the right to oppose the removal by third parties of its trade marks and thei…

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EU Trade Marks Should Be Distinctive Throughout the EU, Not Just a Significant Part Thereof

In its recent Nestlé v Mondelez decision (C-84/17P, C-85/17P and C-95/17P), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirmed that the acqui…

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GDPR Series: Part 18 - Automated Individual Decision-Making, Including Profiling

This series provides more detailed insight into the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), which was published on 4 May 2016 and entered into ef…

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Consequences of intellectual property rights infringement in Luxembourg

Over the last five years, the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), through the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Propert…

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La réforme du droit d'auteur dans l'UE : une nouvelle protection contre l'hégémonie des GAFA ?

En matière de réforme visant à faciliter l’émergence d’un marché unique du numérique, on aura souvent entendu ces jours derniers l’application du Règl…

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Red Sole Diary: how the story ends before the CJEU

The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) handed down an eagerly awaited decision in a dispute about Christian Louboutin's “red sole ma…

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Amendments to the Benelux convention on Intellectual Property

The Benelux Convention on Intellectual Property (BCIP) has been amended as of June 1st. The Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) will have …

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CJEU rules that Louboutin's red sole trade mark is not a shape trade mark

On 12 June 2018, the Court of Justice of the EU rendered its much-awaited judgement in the case about Louboutin’s red sole trade mark, ruling that thi…

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Le RGPD entre en vigueur aujourd’hui : Conseils pratiques et étapes à suivre dans le cadre de votre projet de …

Le nouveau règlement général 2016/679 relatif à la protection des données à caractère personnel (« RGPD ») est officiellement applicable dès…

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Focusing on Funds: GDPR – Are you ready?

The GDPR will replace much of the existing privacy legislation across the EU (including in the UK, the Data Protection Act 1998). As an EU Regulation …

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BEPS-compliant IP regime enters into force

On 19 April 2018, the law introducing the new Luxembourg BEPS-compliant Intellectual Property (IP) regime was published. With retroactive effect as fr…

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Transparency vs.Data Protection :Questions raised by the draft law 7217/00 on the creation of Luxembourg Regis…

On 20 May 2015, the European Parliament adopted the Directive (EU) 2015/849 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of m…

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Important changes to Benelux Trade Mark Law as per June 1, 2018

The Benelux trade mark System will undergo two important changes as per June 1, 2018. Appeals from decisions of the Benelux Office for Intellectual P…

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