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The Croatian Government is preparing to establish a comprehensive system for screening foreign direct investments (FDIs) by adopting the new Act on the Screening of Foreign Direct Investments (the "Act").

The European Parliament has now approved the "Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive," which will apply to both EU companies and to non-EU companies doing business in the European Union.

It has been reported that the European Central Bank will be imposing fines on as many as four lenders due to "not meeting deadlines set by the ECB for assessing their exposure to climate risks."

A vote by EU lawmakers in mid-January gave individual governments within the 28-nation bloc the authority to decide whether genetically modified organisms can be grown and cultivated within their borders.

The authors of the EU Parliament and Council drafts used their own unique editing styles to show their changes to the Commission's original draft, which makes it a challenge to compare all three drafts.

UPDATE: The Article 29 Working Party has released surprisingly brief comments on Privacy Shield, available here.

The EU Commission has formally adopted Privacy Shield and the US Department of Commerce will go live with a new Privacy Shield registration website on August 1.

The final version of Privacy Shield (which has not yet been officially published) passed the Article 31 Committee vote on July 8th and is being presented today to the LIBE committee of the European Parliament.

What would a EDPS Ethics Board have to offer once the GDPR is finalized? Clearly it would offer guidance to European Union institutions as to how to apply the GDPR to their own data protection practices...

Benjamin Storrow's story in E&E News on the challenges faced by the New England Clean Energy Connect project is worth a read. He reports that it would be the third largest...

On March 6, 2024, the SEC issued its long-awaited climate disclosure rule, which mandates the disclosure of climate-related risks and Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions, among other things.

On December 28, 2021, the Biden administration issued a proclamation that revoked the travel ban for individuals who had been present in eight countries in Southern Africa.

On his first day in office, President Joseph Biden sought to end a series of discriminatory travel bans set forth by the previous administration.

On September 20, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the Department of State, published an updated list of countries eligible...

From 1 March 2015, a new agreement will come into force that allows European patents to be validated in Morocco.

For municipal bond investors and insurers, recent events in Puerto Rico have become a major concern.

ClientEarth, an environmental law organization, has filed a shareholder derivative lawsuit in the United Kingdom against Shell's board of directors for an alleged failure to adequately prepare Shell for the impact of climate change.

The UK Home Office has announced plans to offer an optional premium service for requests made through the Sponsor Management System (SMS).