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On 25 November 2019, the Latvian Competition Council (Council) published a report on “Medicines: Price formation and possible restrictions on competition affecting their financial availability”. The aim of the study was to consider the factors affecting prices and financial availability of medicines in Latvia. The study compared the regulatory frameworks of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia […]
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Your postman might know too much about you – but if so, it risks 18 million euros. This was the fine issued on 23 October by the Austrian Data Protection agency (‘the Agency’) for breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) committed by the Austrian postal service, Österreichische Post AG (Austrian Post). This institution, […]
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I want to have my logo protected in several EU countries. What is better – to have separate national trademark registrations or an EU registration? What are the pros and cons? Trademark rights have a territorial character, meaning that protection will be in force only in the country where the trademark is registered. If you […]
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A pre-checked checkbox does not constitute consent which a website user must give for storage of and access to cookies on their equipment. Therefore companies need to change their current practice. This was the conclusion reached by the Court of Justice of the European Union in its judgment in Case C-673/17 Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und […]
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