Category Archives: English – posts in English on this blog

DSA and DMA adopted

On 5 July European Parliament held the final vote on the new Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA), following a deal reached between Parliament and Council.   More information: Europe: Parliament: Press release European Parliament, 5 July 2022. Commission: … Lees verder

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AML Package in the Working Party on Financial Services and the Banking Union (Financial Services) (Council), 18 July

On Monday 18 July next, the Working Party on Financial Services and the Banking Union (Financial Services) of the European Council will be meeting all day about the AML package (meeting information, notice of meeting and provisional agenda). Out of … Lees verder

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European Parliament: PETI Fact Finding Mission FATCA [2]

Around an hour ago the PETI committee published the following press release on its FATCA-visit: FATCA: MEPs discuss tax information exchange laws in Washington, D.C. Press Releases PETI 1 hour ago A delegation of MEPs from the Petitions Committee will … Lees verder

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States as platforms under new EU (online platforms’) law | Papakonstantinou on European Law Blog

Vagelis Papakonstantinou for European Law Blog wrote the article States as platforms under new EU (online platforms’) law in which he discusses the consequences of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for states.

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European Parliament: PETI sends Fact Finding Mission to Washington D.C. regarding FATCA

The Committee on Petitions (PETI) of the European Parliament is sending a delegation to the US to discuss the harm done by FATCA. Read PETI’s announcement: 18-07-2022 09:00 Fact Finding Mission to Washington D.C. A delegation of the PETI Committee … Lees verder

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Unhealthy IT | European Parliament and Mental Health in the Digital World of Work

It is becoming more and more clear that digitalisation is very unhealthy for people. This includes dangers for employees and other workers, for instance caused by workplace surveillance. The European Parliament recently has discussed mental health in the digital world … Lees verder

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EDPB’s opinion on Europe’s digital euro and AML/CFT | GDPR

Currently Europe is working on the introduction of a digital euro. In June the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on this digital euro. The response also covers the aspects of combating … Lees verder

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Whistle-blowing without privacy: the Italian SA fines hospital and IT service provider

Whistle-blowing is considered to be important to combat crime. However: GDPR is also playing a role in whistle-blowing cases as is seen in the decision of 7 April 2022 of the Italian data protection authority, published on 10 June on … Lees verder

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Naive belief in transparency dominates the western world | beneficial ownership, G7, AML, CFT

The naive belief that transparency of beneficial owners helps fight crime is also propagated by the G7, the group of seven most powerful western countries, currently with Germany as chairman. G7 fails to recognise that the openness of registers of … Lees verder

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AMLA and the independence of lawyers | AML Package

The AMLA Package is relevant for the independence of lawyers (here to be read as ‘advocaten’ in Dutch and ‘Rechtsanwälte’ in German). Public authority in charge of overseeing the self regulatory bodies (AMLD6) In the proposal for the 6th AML/CFT … Lees verder

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