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Baltic business advised to prepare for new data laws
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in force for six years, but the area of data protection legislation keeps evolving. “We have just started to live with GDPR when a new package of legal acts is knocking on the door,” Mihkel Miidla, head of our Data Protection team, noted at a webinar held […]
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European Legal update 05.12. – 19.12.
Assistant lawyer Nikola Cīparsone compiled the material. Technology & intellectual property Artificial Intelligence Act: European Parliament and the Council reach provisional agreement Reached: 9 December 2023 The AI Act introduces dedicated rules for general purpose AI models that will ensure transparency along the value chain. Specific banned applications of AI are set, as well as […]
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Bitė Group splits up its telecommunications and media businesses
We advised Bitė Lietuva on splitting up its telecommunications and media businesses. From now on, they will each be managed by different holdings. Bitė Group will merge its telecommunications businesses in Lithuania and Latvia, while All Media Group will merge its media businesses in the Baltic countries, including TV3 television, the streaming platform station Go3 […]
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Elering updates its internal communications network
We advised Elering, the national transmission system operator for electricity and natural gas, on risk identification and mitigation measures in relation to constructing and maintaining their internal ICT communications systems. Multidisciplinary approach The case demanded expert knowledge in the specific aspects of infrastructure, telecommunications, public procurement, and data protection law. Our multidisciplinary approach allowed us to […]
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TMT Newsletter Q1
Below you can find our quarterly TMT newsletter, covering statistics of GDPR-related fines and transposition of the European Accessibility Act in the Baltics, as well as updates about the deployment of 5G in Estonia and Lithuania. TMT Insight Transposition of the European Accessibility Act in the Baltics The European Accessibility Act sets out new product […]