Publication / Marina Golovnitskaya, Kirill Laptev, Yauheni Budchanka, Pavel Lashuk,
1. Introduction The introduction should provide an overview of the relationship between pharma regulation and general privacy and data protection law. 1.1. Legislation Key acts, regulations, directives governing the health and pharma sector, and which are relevant to privacy and data protection The key legal act governing the health and pharma sector is the Law […]
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 […]
Publication / Kirill Laptev
1. The Law 1.1. Key Acts, Regulations, Directives, Bills (only if highly likely to become law) The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus of 1994 (available in English (non-official translation) here); Law of 10 November 2008 No. 455-Z on Information, Informatization and Data Protection (available in Russian here) (‘the Law on Information’). Belarusian laws provide for […]
Publication / Ieva Andersone, Jūlija Terjuhana, Private: Gunvaldis Leitens
Development of a new Latvian regulation on qualifications for data protection officers is in process. The SDI will be responsible for the exam procedure. Unlike previous regulations, the new ones do not set special requirements for candidates who want to take the exam. The draft regulations state that exams will be announced at least two […]
