30.01.2023

European Commission launches public consultation on draft guidelines on application of exclusion from Article 101 TFEU for sustainability agreements in agriculture

On 10 January 2023, the European Commission launched a new public consultation on the draft guidelines on sustainability agreements in agriculture (available at the following link) that are to be adopted…

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11.01.2023

Ukraine crisis – Sanctions (update 10 January 2023)

This memorandum is not intended to be exhaustive and has the sole purpose of providing a preliminary overview of the sanctions imposed, and in the process of being imposed, against Russia, with a…

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19.12.2022

The new adequacy decision to simplify data transfers to the US

With the new adequacy decision of the European Commission, the transfer of personal data to the US will soon undergo significant and important developments. As in the best Netflix series, we start with…

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09.12.2022

Mar and SME Growth Markets: EU regolation on liquidity contracts published

On 18 October 2022, Delegated Regulation (EU) 1959/2022 adopted by the European Commission on 13 July 2022 (“Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union and came into effect…

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02.11.2022

Single booking of a flight divided into multiple legs: what is the place of performance of the obligation in question?

By its judgment issued on 3 February 2022 in case C-20/21[1], the Court of Justice of the European Union (the  “Court”) once again ruled on the identification of the “place of performance” of the…

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02.11.2022

New developments in transportation: from the reform of freight-forwarding contracts to limitation of liability in multimodal transport, from “fuel surcharge” clauses to exemption from payment of the ART contribution for road haulage companies

The beginning of this year saw several interventions of the lawmaker in the transport field. The most significant step addressed freight forwarding contracts, whose discipline under the Italian Civil…

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02.11.2022

Grants for intermodal freight transport: the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region’s experience

By Decision C(2022) 1427 final of 3 March 2022 (hereinafter, the “Decision”), the European Commission approved a state aid scheme[1] aimed at promoting the shift of freight traffic from road to rail or…

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02.11.2022

Annual law for the market and competition approved: what changes for the port world?

The annual law for the market and competition of 2021[1] (“Legge Concorrenza 2021”) has been approved as a result of a long legislative procedure that, as is known, experienced some slowdowns due to the…

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02.11.2022

Call for input on the Italian port industry to define new regulatory measures

As is well known, the Italian Transport Regulation Authority (“ART”) was established[1] by Italian lawmakers in order to - inter alia - “ensure, in accordance with methods that encourage competition, the…

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28.10.2022

China issues new policies to encourage foreign investment in manufacturing

On 13th October 2022, days before the opening of the 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing, six ministry-level agencies in China, respectively the National Development and Reform Commission, the…

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20.10.2022

China data protection report - update october 2022

At the following link you can find the memorandum “China Data Protection Report 2022”, an in-depth analysis of the new rules on the processing of personal data in China through an explanation of the main…

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19.10.2022

Ukraine crisis – Sanctions (update)

This memorandum is not intended to be exhaustive and has the sole purpose of providing a preliminary overview of the sanctions imposed, and in the process of being imposed, against Russia, with a…

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