Europe: Technology

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Im Rechtspanorama am 04.03.2024 berichtet RAK Vize-Präsidentin Mag. Bettina Knoetzl über das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz.

The European Union Digital Services Act (DSA) now applies to all digital "intermediary services" that provide users with access to online goods, services, and content.

AI Agents are transforming commerce by autonomously selecting goods, comparing prices, and initiating payments on behalf of consumers. This briefing explores the complex regulatory challenges and opportunities that agentic commerce presents for businesses, from contract formation and payment regulation to consumer protection and strategic partnerships.

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The Marks & Clerk AI Report 2024 explores the challenges of ownership and protection of AI-generated designs. While AI-generated products can meet design registration requirements, questions remain about who qualifies as the owner. The report reviews patent rulings on AI inventorship and explores protections available via Registered and Unregistered Design Rights in the UK, EU, and US. The UK offers Unregistered Design Rights, potentially available for AI-generated designs if marketed in qualify

The European Commission's review of MiCAR presents a critical opportunity to reconsider how asset-referenced tokens are regulated. With no authorised ART issuers to date, the current framework may be imposing disproportionate regulatory burdens that fail to distinguish between tokens creating genuine counterparty risk and those representing direct ownership of underlying assets. Should European regulators adopt a more nuanced approach that differentiates asset-referenced tokens from asset-representing token

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has introduced significant regulatory reforms to strengthen the island's position as a leading digital finance centre, including new guidance on asset tokenisation and streamlined licensing requirements. These changes aim to reduce complexity while maintaining robust regulatory standards, with further stablecoin regulations expected in autumn 2026.

Almost 7 years on from the UK Jurisdiction Task Force’s seminal report on the law of property relating to purely digital assets and 3 years on from the Law Commission’s own 2023 report on the subject, you would be forgiven for believing that we had reached the point of certainty with respect to how the English law treats digital assets such as crypto-currencies.

The EU's Cyber Resilience Act establishes comprehensive cybersecurity obligations for manufacturers, importers, and distributors of products with digital elements. With reporting requirements now in effect and full compliance required by December 2027, economic operators must navigate conformity assessments, incident reporting protocols, and enforcement mechanisms that include substantial penalties for non-compliance.

European financial supervisors issue a joint declaration on cybersecurity risks from frontier AI models, while the CJEU clarifies limits on intermediary liability exemptions and restricts public access to shareholder data.

Healthcare sits at the heart of the UK's critical national infrastructure, yet faces a perfect storm of sophisticated cyber threats, complex supply chains, resource constraints and growing reliance on digital technologies. This article explores why cyber resilience has become a board-level priority and what CNI designation means for organisations across the healthcare sector.