Important changes in the Personal Data Protection Act will enter into force on 1st January 2015. These are a part of the government’s “deregulation package” (Act of 23rd October 2014 on the facilitation of pursuing business activity), which aims to facilitate doing business in Poland. The most significant changes are:…
On 3 December 2014, Transparency International (“TI”) launched its latest Corruption Perceptions Index (“CPI”) 2014. The CPI ranks countries…
GCB is a landmark judgment with important implications for the European Commission and member states applying EU competition…
Video monitoring and CCTV are not specifically regulated by Polish law. Currently, the processing of images and other data collected by cameras is subject to the general provisions of the data processing act. In many cases its provisions are difficult to apply to video monitoring activities. For instance, CCTV administrators…
On July 29, 2014 the law on combating late payment in commercial transactions came into force. It serves…
Disclosure of environmental, human rights and social risks is moving from its home between the glossy pages of voluntary reports into the hard-nosed realm of mandatory legal requirements, as evidenced by recent developments in the European Union and India.