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Regulatory and compliance

The EU steps nearer to tougher regime to fight environmental crime

New legislation to assist in the discovery and prosecution of serious environmental offences will deliver on ambitious European Green Deal...

11/01/2022

Regulatory and compliance

The EU steps nearer to tougher regime to fight environmental crime

11/01/2022

Decarbonisation

Legislative timetable of the new measures for spare parts

New measures and obligations regarding spare parts have been mainly specified in law n°2020-105 of 10 February 2020 on the...

01/12/2021

Decarbonisation

The obligation to incorporate recycled materials

Under the French Environmental Code, in order to achieve waste prevention and management objectives set by national law or European...

01/12/2021

Decarbonisation

Prohibition on the destruction of unsold non-food products

A ban initially limited to food products The ban on the destruction of unsold food products was introduced by Law...

01/12/2021

Decarbonisation

New disclosure requirements towards consumers

Concerns about the information provided to consumers regarding the environmental characteristics or impacts of products are not new. Provisions relating...

01/12/2021

Decarbonisation

Private copy levy and refurbished devices

On July 1, 2021, a decision by the committee for the private copy levy (“Commission pour la rémunération de la...

25/11/2021

Decarbonisation

Shaky bridge between exhaustion of intellectual property rights and the refurbishing of electronic products

The carbon emissions involved in the production of smartphones and tablets are significant. As "consuming better" has become a major...

23/11/2021

Banking and finance

Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in UK

Highly unusual cost-reduction move demonstrates shifting dynamics

19/11/2021

Read time 4m

Tech, Media and Comms

Supreme Court in Lloyd v Google dismisses data protection class action

The judgment that overturns the Court of Appeal's ruling and disallows a collective claim for 4.5m iPhone users will come...

18/11/2021

Sustainable disruption: 12 decarbonising technologies for cities

Sustainable disruption: 12 decarbonising technologies for cities | Report

Identifying impactful, scalable and investable technologies to drive urban decarbonisation. Download here.

16/11/2021

COP26

COP26 | Energy Day

Welcome to the fourth instalment of our daily COP26 updates: a digest of what is on the agenda each day...

04/11/2021

Sustainable disruption: 12 decarbonising technologies for cities

Can sustainable disruption and technology deliver decarbonised cities?

Against the backdrop of COP26, the reduction of carbon emissions in cities and identifying methodology, technology and investment to achieve...

02/11/2021

COP26

COP26 | World Leaders' Summit begins

Welcome to the first instalment of our daily COP26 updates: a digest of what is on the agenda each day...

01/11/2021

Sustainable disruption: 12 decarbonising technologies for cities

New research by Economist Impact, supported by Osborne Clarke, has identified 12 technologies that can help cities achieve their carbon-emission...

20/10/2021

Read time 2m

Blockchain

What are the legal issues around NFTs?

Our international blockchain, technology, data, intellectual property and finreg specialists discuss the legal issues raised by the growing commercial activity...

14/10/2021

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Regulatory and compliance

The EU steps nearer to tougher regime to fight environmental crime

New legislation to assist in the discovery and prosecution of serious environmental offences will deliver on ambitious European Green Deal...

11/01/2022

Regulatory and compliance

The EU steps nearer to tougher regime to fight environmental crime

11/01/2022

Decarbonisation

Legislative timetable of the new measures for spare parts

New measures and obligations regarding spare parts have been mainly specified in law n°2020-105 of 10 February 2020 on the...

01/12/2021

Decarbonisation

The obligation to incorporate recycled materials

Under the French Environmental Code, in order to achieve waste prevention and management objectives set by national law or European...

01/12/2021

Decarbonisation

Prohibition on the destruction of unsold non-food products

A ban initially limited to food products The ban on the destruction of unsold food products was introduced by Law...

01/12/2021

Decarbonisation

New disclosure requirements towards consumers

Concerns about the information provided to consumers regarding the environmental characteristics or impacts of products are not new. Provisions relating...

01/12/2021

Decarbonisation

Private copy levy and refurbished devices

On July 1, 2021, a decision by the committee for the private copy levy (“Commission pour la rémunération de la...

25/11/2021

Decarbonisation

Shaky bridge between exhaustion of intellectual property rights and the refurbishing of electronic products

The carbon emissions involved in the production of smartphones and tablets are significant. As "consuming better" has become a major...

23/11/2021

Banking and finance

Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in UK

Highly unusual cost-reduction move demonstrates shifting dynamics

19/11/2021

Read time 4m

Tech, Media and Comms

Supreme Court in Lloyd v Google dismisses data protection class action

The judgment that overturns the Court of Appeal's ruling and disallows a collective claim for 4.5m iPhone users will come...

18/11/2021

Sustainable disruption: 12 decarbonising technologies for cities

Sustainable disruption: 12 decarbonising technologies for cities | Report

Identifying impactful, scalable and investable technologies to drive urban decarbonisation. Download here.

16/11/2021

COP26

COP26 | Energy Day

Welcome to the fourth instalment of our daily COP26 updates: a digest of what is on the agenda each day...

04/11/2021

Sustainable disruption: 12 decarbonising technologies for cities

Can sustainable disruption and technology deliver decarbonised cities?

Against the backdrop of COP26, the reduction of carbon emissions in cities and identifying methodology, technology and investment to achieve...

02/11/2021

COP26

COP26 | World Leaders' Summit begins

Welcome to the first instalment of our daily COP26 updates: a digest of what is on the agenda each day...

01/11/2021

Sustainable disruption: 12 decarbonising technologies for cities

New research by Economist Impact, supported by Osborne Clarke, has identified 12 technologies that can help cities achieve their carbon-emission...

20/10/2021

Read time 2m

Blockchain

What are the legal issues around NFTs?

Our international blockchain, technology, data, intellectual property and finreg specialists discuss the legal issues raised by the growing commercial activity...

14/10/2021

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