The new EU design legislation has just been published in the EU Official Journal and will enter into force on 8 December 2024, after almost a decade of preparatory and legislative work. The aim of the ...

Europe Inc is Brussels’ answer to a fragmented market, global pressure, and why the EU wants faster company creation and ...

The European Commission has proposed new cybersecurity legislation mandating the removal of high-risk suppliers to secure ...

On 19 December 2025, the European Commission (EC) published the final study examining how sustainability could be better integrated into the European Union’s food-contact materials (FCMs) legislation ...

The EU is driving a transformational shift in product lifecycle management and digitalization. A key innovation is the Digital Product Passport (“DPP”), a digital data container designed to enhance ...

Legislation aims to adapt EU law to reflect scientific and technological progress, enabling the products of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), such as gene editing, to contribute to more sustainable ...

To set the context, it is important to consider the underlying EU’s product safety legislation, which consists of three components: General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) – Regulation (EU) 2023/988 ...

In May 2024, officials in the European Union passed a radical new law that threatens to deal a severe blow to the U.S. economy, erode individual freedoms and coerce thousands of American companies ...

EU countries are intending to galvanise the adoption of legislation enabling the indefinite freezing of €210 billion in Russian assets in order to prevent a veto from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor ...

The EU is determined to strengthen its long-term competitiveness and to keep its economic, social and environmental objectives intact. A simpler regulatory framework, in which the EU simplifies ...

Law’s original author points to removal of obligations for downstream traders to verify origin of commodities It was hailed by campaigners around the world as a game-changing piece of legislation that ...

In September, the European Law Institute will hold its annual meeting in Vienna, Austria. The meeting brings together judges, attorneys, professors, and policy experts from throughout Europe to ...