The first tranche of Australian privacy law reform has been passed by the Australian government and will come into effect within days. This reform further increases the range and type of penalties that Australia can enforce for non-compliance with local
The Data (Use and Access) Bill (“DUA Bill”)[1] had its second reading on 19th November 2024 after being introduced in the House of Lords on 23 October and the Bill is anticipated to enter the Lords’ Committee stage in
State and local legislatures have been active throughout 2024 passing laws and ordinances that will impact employers of all sizes and all industries.
Click HERE for our summary of these laws and related developments in Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New York
European Union
Progress update on the Universal PFAS restriction proposal – The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), in collaboration with the five national authorities that submitted the PFAS restriction proposal, has issued an update on the progress of the proposal. This
Nineteen states have followed the lead of California and passed consumer privacy laws. Three went into effect this year and eight will become effective in 2025. The remainder become effective in 2026. Charts at the end of this post track
In November 2024, the European Commission published two notices related to sustainability reporting which provide helpful guidance for companies and financial institutions that need to comply with the new sustainability requirements while ensuring that their reporting meets all requirements.
EU
Here’s a sentence you don’t see very often, but hats off to the Regulatory Policy Committee for its excoriating review last week of the thinking behind the new Employment Rights Bill.
The RPC is a body set up by the
La Haute autorité de l’audit (« H2A ») a publié début octobre des lignes directrices à destination des futurs auditeurs de durabilité français. Elles définissent et précisent les attendus dans l’exercice de leur mission de certification auprès des entités assujetties à la
On September 10, 2024, Legislative Decree No. 125 of September 6, 2024 (the “decree”) was published in the Italian Official Gazette transposing Directive 2022/2464/EU, commonly referred to as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), into Italian law.
The decree replaces
Following the decisions in Fore Fitness and Active Wear – where the court examined the validity of decisions made by a sole director of a company that operated wholly or partly under the Model Articles[1]– the position was