Gabriele Accardo

Mar 21, 2024 | lexology.com | Rafael Baena |Gabriele Accardo |Nicolas Quoy |Fiona Garside |Nigel J Parr |Amanda K Ludlow | +4 more

Key themes, incoming reforms and cases to watchDigital platforms, online content providers and other businesses active in the digital economy face an increasingly complex and evolving legal and regulatory landscape in the EU and UK with privacy and data regulation, online safety, competition and consumer issues increasingly intertwined in the digital sphere, and new regulation such as the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA).

Feb 14, 2024 | lexology.com | Gabriele Accardo |Fiona Garside

On 21 December 2023, the Italian Supreme Administrative Court (CDS) held that the Italian competition authority, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), must cooperate with the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante Privacy) when investigations give rise to substantive data protection issues. The judgment is a significant development that will impact future AGCM investigations (including, potentially, in relation to the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (DMA)).

Nov 17, 2023 | lexology.com | Irene Antypas |Fiona Garside |Christopher Eberhardt |Gabriele Accardo

On 19 September 2023, the European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on new rules governing environmental claims. This follows the European Commission's proposal for a Directive (the Green Claims Directive) which was published in March 2023. Specifically, the Directive aims to prevent companies making unclear or unsubstantiated environmental claims (so-called "greenwashing") and using labels that are not credible. The end goal is to enable consumers to make sustainable choices.