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High-priced recipe of mixing politics, personal data, and mailing
Your postman might know too much about you – but if so, it risks 18 million euros. This was the fine issued on 23 October by the Austrian Data Protection agency (‘the Agency’) for breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) committed by the Austrian postal service, Österreichische Post AG (Austrian Post). This institution, […]
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CJEU: advertising cookies should not be imposed on consumers
A pre-checked checkbox does not constitute consent which a website user must give for storage of and access to cookies on their equipment. Therefore companies need to change their current practice. This was the conclusion reached by the Court of Justice of the European Union in its judgment in Case C-673/17 Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und […]
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What to consider when embedding an FB “Like” button on your website?
In a recent judgement in Case C-40/17 Fashion ID GmbH & Co. KG v Verbraucherzentrale NRW eV the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its ruling on 29 July 2019. The main conclusion: Internet websites that embed a Facebook “Like” button can be controllers jointly with Facebook within the meaning of […]
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Latvia: legal development of life sciences & healthcare sector
Amendments adopted to increase availability of medicines On 16 July 2019 Cabinet of Ministers Regulations No 899 of 31 October 2006 “Procedure for reimbursement of reimbursable medicines and medical devices” (in Latvian) was amended. The amendments (in Latvian) are claimed to be a major improvement in the availability of medicines, for example reducing patient co-payments […]
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The Baltics: Different needs and speeds in the transposition of the trade mark directive
By 14 January 2019 the Member States of the European Union (EU) had to implement the New European Union Trade Mark Directive 2015/2436 of 16 December 2015 (the Trade Mark Directive). So, by now the Member States had to bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with most of the […]