Actualités et articles

27/09/24

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

Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2023 on markets in crypto-assets (“MiCA”) entered into force on 29 J…

04/07/24

DORA implementation in Luxembourg

The Luxembourg law implementing certain aspects of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and implementing Directive 2022/2556 has just been pu…

03/07/24

Publication of the Luxembourg DORA Law

On 2 July 2024, the law of 1 July 20241 relating to DORA (DORA Law) was published in the Official Journal of Luxembourg. It will enter into force on 1…

17/06/24

AI Act Adopted: introduction to the 458-page EU legislation

On 21 May 2024, the European Council gave its final approval to the regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (the “AI Act”),…

04/06/24

New Regulation on Instant Credit Transfers – Key takeaways.

Instant credit transfers are credit transfers which are executed immediately, 24 hours a day and on any calendar day. In order to unlock the potential…

12/03/24

Launch of coordinated enforcement action on the right of access

On 28 February, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) launched its Coordinated Enforcement Framework (CEF) action for 2024. This year, the Luxembo…

29/01/24

DORA: first set of final level 2 rules for ICT and third-party risk management and incident reporting framewor…

The ESAs have published the first set of final draft technical standards under DORA aimed at enhancing the digital operational resilience of the EU fi…

25/01/24

ICT-related incident reporting – new CSSF Circular and Regulation

On 5 January 2024, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) issued Circular CSSF 24/847 (CSSF Circular). At the same time, the CSSF …

28/12/23

EU Regulation on artificial intelligence is coming

After two years of negotiation and a final session of trilogue that lasted hours, on 9 December 2023 the European Parliament and the Council of the EU…

26/12/23

Key Takeaways of ALIA’s White Paper on the regulation of tomorrow's media

Electronic media in Luxembourg are currently regulated by the Law of 27 July 1991 on electronic media (“Electronic Media Law”). This law adopts a chan…

20/11/23

European Parliament adopts final version of the Data Act

On 9 November 2023, the European Parliament formally and overwhelmingly adopted, by a majority of 481 votes in favour, 31 votes against and 71 abstent…

20/10/23

Draft Law No. 8291 on the digital operational resilience of the financial sector

On 4 August 2023, the draft law No. 8291 (the "Draft Law") aimed at (i) implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 of 14 December 2022 on the digital oper…

22/09/23

Who says fashion can’t be sustainable?

Consumers are becoming increasingly environmentally conscious and focused on sustainability, especially within the fashion industry, which accounts fo…

05/09/23

Contemplated new framework to modernise payment services

On 28 June 2023, the European Commission published a Proposal for a Directive on payment services and electronic money services in the internal market…

12/07/23

EU Commission adopts new adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Protection Framework

After years of negotiations between the eu and the us, the eu commission concluded that the us offers an adequate level of protection for personal dat…

12/07/23

RGPD – Nouvelle décision d’adéquation pour les transferts de données entre les États-Unis et l’UE en vigueur d…

Suite à l’invalidation de la décision d’adéquation du Privacy Shield par la Cour de Justice de l’Union Européenne le 16 juillet 2020 (voir notre artic…

11/07/23

Some useful clarifications on right of access under GDPR

The year 2023 has seen a number of clarifications with respect to the right of access under the GDPR:

26/05/23

New law adopted on the whistleblowers’ protection transposing the EU Directive 2019/1937 of the European Parli…

23/05/23

Entry into force of the law of 16 May 2023 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law: empl…

On 16 May 2023, the Luxembourg Parliament (Chambre des députés) adopted the long-awaited law (the "Law") transposing Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the E…

19/05/23

Publication of Luxembourg law on whistleblowing

The law of 16 May 2023 (the “Law”) implements Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 on the protection of pe…