The medical device landscape in the EU underwent significant regulatory developments over the past few years. 2024 is going to be another year of change for the sector.

Will one of Margrethe Vestager's last acts as the European Commissioner for Competition be to help lower motor insurance premiums for Irish motorists?

The Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (the "Department") has opened a public consultation seeking stakeholder input on key legislative proposals to be included in the Consumer Protection...

This briefing considers certain forthcoming changes to the Central Bank of Ireland's (CBI) Consumer Protection Code (CPC) relevant to insurance brokers and other intermediaries.

The CPC has been revised, updated and consolidated into the Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013 (Section 48) (Consumer Protection) Regulations 2025 (Consumer Protection Regulations).

In a recent High Court case, Board of Management of Presentation College Athenry v Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills and Others...

The European Union's Green Transition Directive introduces sweeping changes to consumer protection law, targeting misleading environmental claims and sustainability labels across all sectors. Ireland's implementing regulations, effective September 2026, will prohibit generic green claims, require detailed verification of environmental promises, and ban sustainability labels lacking proper certification. Financial services firms must now navigate expanded rules on misleading practices, particularly regarding

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This monthly legal update from William Fry curates essential articles spanning technology transformation, foreign investment screening, product liability rulings, AI regulation developments, pension scheme complaints, building energy performance changes, insurance recovery frameworks, MiFID compliance expectations, and environmental assessment requirements.

Private leasing is growing, as consumer mindsets shift from ownership to subscription.

Financial services providers in Ireland have until the end of March 2023 to answer questions raised in a Discussion Paper issued by the Central Bank of Ireland on its plans to review...

Ireland has published its transposing measures for the updated Distance Marketing Directive, introducing significant changes to consumer protection rules for financial services contracts concluded at a distance. The new regulations revoke existing 2004 rules and integrate updated requirements into the Consumer Rights Act 2022, while establishing a dual-enforcement framework and criminalizing key breaches.

We expect to see the European Commission's proposed omnibus simplification package, aimed at simplifying sustainability reporting obligations under the EU Taxonomy Regulation...

The Central Bank of Ireland's revised Client Asset Requirements apply to credit institutions from 1 January 2024. The related Guidance (which broadly reflects the draft Guidance that was available on the Central Bank's website since June 2022) applies from the same date.

On 21 February 2018, the largest opposition party in Ireland published a bill entitled the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018 (the "Bill").

On Wednesday, 27 May 2015, the Select Sub-Committee on Finance voted in favour of a number of amendments to the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015...

The Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 ("the Bill") was signed into law by President Michael D. Higgins on 27 June 2022 as the Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 ("the Act").

The commencement of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Act 2023 (the "Act") on 30 April 2024 introduced a new civil litigation mechanism in Ireland.

Do regulatory agencies have phone tapping powers? For now, no – but there have been calls for the Government to give certain regulatory agencies, such as the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC)

With the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 just signed into law, the case of Vodafone Ireland Limited -v- Telefonica Ireland Limited is very topical.