The European Commission recently announced new legislation to address work-life balance and women’s underrepresentation in the labour market. Across the EU, the overall rate of employment of women is still 11.5 percentage points lower than that of men and it estimates that the economic loss due to the gender employment…
On October 2, 2019, the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued an arbitration decision in European Communities and Certain…
After two decades of negotiations and debates, the European Union (EU) and Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay)…
On June 30th 2019, the EU and Vietnam signed the EU – Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and the EU – Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA) in Hanoi. The EU and Vietnam began negotiations on the EVFTA in 2012 and expect the EVFTA may enter into force before the end of 2019. What…
The Department of Justice’s view on corporate compliance took a dramatic turn with the recent announcement of a…
What are the new requirements and when do they apply? The European Commission has published new regulatory technical…
Baker McKenzie is pleased to invite you to interactive seminars in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in October 2018 to discuss the implications of recent US and EU sanctions on international trade.
In light of the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation, the German data protection authorities have changed their position on how employees submit whistleblowing reports anonymously. The German data protection authorities have issued guidelines in this regard.
In order to help businesses to include the EU General Data Protection Regulation in their data protection practices, Baker McKenzie has updated the 2018 edition of its GDPR National Legislation Survey.
The European Commission has started the process by which it would add US sanctions measures on Iran to the so-called Blocking Regulation.