The Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (OCCP) is continuing its drive to engage actively in consumer protection law enforcement. In January, the president of the OCCP announced that he will examine how the market has adapted to new regulations resulting from implementation of the Omnibus directive. The competition...

The president of Poland's Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (OCCP) has recently imposed a fine on a parking management company operating in the country and requested explanations from two other companies from this sector. There have also been signals from the OCCP concerning the submission of complaints that chatbots...

The Science and Technology Framework published by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) earlier this year confirms the role of future telecommunications as a critical technology in the UK that needs to flourish to deliver the government's aim of becoming a science and technology superpower by 2030. The...

Foreign Subsidies notification regime now in force The Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), which came into force on 12 January 2023, aims to redress the distortive effect on competition in the EU caused by companies in receipt of substantial foreign subsidies within the EU internal market. The new mandatory notification regime...

Changes to National Security and Investment Act On 13 November 2023, the Cabinet Office issued a call for evidence in relation to the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) to collect views on how the national security and investment regime can be more business friendly while maintaining and refining...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a feedback statement on the potential competition impact of Big Tech entry and expansion in retail financial services. The 12 July statement is part of the UK financial regulator's three-year strategy, which was launched in April 2022 to identify the potential benefits and...

On 13 January 2025, to much fanfare, the UK government published tech entrepreneur Matt Clifford's AI Opportunities Action Plan, an ambitious proposal for ramping up artificial intelligence (AI) development and adoption across the UK. At the same time, the government published a detailed response, accepting all 50 recommendations and setting...

Data is the fuel for data-driven business models, and the European Commission intends to provide this fuel. The Commission’s proposal for an EU Data Act has now been officially presented (23 February 2022) as part of the European Data Strategy, which aims to realise a European single market for data...

The UK government has announced that the UK extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (commonly referred to as the UK-US data bridge) has now been established, and businesses can start using it from 12 October 2023. In July, after 24 EU Member States voted in favour of the EU-US...

On 2 March 2021, the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published revised draft definitions to shape the scope of the mandatory notification regime under the National Security and Investment Bill (the NSI Bill). The revisions tighten up the definitions. This reflects the UK government's aim to...