On 28 February, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) launched its Coor…
The ESAs have published the first set of final draft technical standards un…
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Under the existing regulations, personal data can only be transferred to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area (EEA) if that count…
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The EU Commission and the US have agreed on a new framework for transatlantic data flows, named "the EU-US Privacy Shield". This, however, does not me…
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On 2 February 2016, the European Commission and the United States reached an agreement on a new framework for transatlantic data flows. This EU-US Pri…
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After the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) declared the Safe Harbour Decision invalid in its judgement of 6 October 2016, the European Comm…
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Now that the holidays are behind us, with the exception of a belated New Year's drink here and there, it's business as usual and thus time to dig a li…
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Les sociétés luxembourgeoises sont en principe soumises à l’impôt sur le revenu des collectivités (ci-après « IRC ») de 21 % majoré par une contributi…
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While some people never stopped believing that the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") would one day become a reality, others had started to d…
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Bill No 6900 frx the budget for 2016, presented on 14 October 2015 by the Luxembourg Minis/er of Finance Pierre Gramegna. is about 10 be adopted. II r…
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The Luxembourg so-called 50bis Regime reduces the effective tax rate applicable to income from registered intellectual property and copyright protecte…
Lire plusOn 6 October 2015 the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereafter CJEU) rendered a major decision by reaffirming the importance of the protectio…
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On 6 October 2015, the European Court of Justice (the “ECJ”) rendered a landmark judgment regarding the Safe Harbour principles that represent a key e…
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The 2014 and 2015 sweeps performed by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network ("GPEN"), an informal network of 57 privacy enforcement authorities in 43…
Lire plusOn 6 October 2015 the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereafter CJEU) rendered a major decision by reaffirming the importance of the protectio…
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The Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) provides that European companies may transfer personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area i…
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The law on electronic archiving ("Law") was voted through by the Luxembourg parliament on 2 July 2015, offering market niches for new tech companies a…
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The Court of Justice, by its judgment on 6 October 2015 in case C-362/14, declared invalid the US Safe Harbour scheme which provides for personal data…
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In its judgment of 6 October 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated the so-called Safe Harbour Decision of the European Commissi…
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Companies often rely on third parties to manage their websites, host databases, maintain their IT infrastructure, organize marketing campaigns, etc.
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Luxembourg has adopted the law that approves the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (the “Agreement”) on 12 April 2015, about two years after the sig…
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Social plugins such as Facebook's Like button and Twitter's Tweet button are very popular as they allow sites to extend their reach and increase their…
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