New Merger Decree introduced possibility of simplified merger notification
The key novelty of this long awaited Merger Decree is the introduction of the possibility to submit merger notification in simplified form. Merger Decree introduces two “tracks” of the merger notification, i.e. it facilitates the burden of the statutory...
The Court of Justice of the EU declares that the EU Commission’s USA Safe Harbour Decision is invalid
The Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) ruled this October that a 15-year-old decision of the EU Commission (so-called “Safe Harbour Decision”), which allows the USA-based companies to handle EU citizens’…