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UK – Advertising and Marketing The Government has announced that it will introduce both a 9pm TV watershed for HFSS products and restrictions on paid-for HFSS advertising online (including on-demand programme services). These changes will come into effect in January 2024 via the Health and Care Bill 2022. Read more
EU – ONLINE PROTECTION AND EDUCATION The Code of Practice against Disinformation was published in September 2018 and was subsequently signed by Facebook, Google, Mozilla and Twitter, among others. The Code is a self-regulatory document and, following European Commission assessments and reports on adherence, guidance was issued in May 2021 to address shortfalls in the … Read more
On 17 March 2022, the Government published its much-anticipated re-draft of the Online Safety Bill, following various announcements over the last few months as to new features to be added to the Bill. We intend to publish a more comprehensive analysis of the latest draft in due course, but here’s a quick overview of the … Read more
On 8 March 2022, the Government announced a further extension of the remit of the Online Safety Bill, in tandem with the launch of an online advertising consultation process. Read more
In 2018, the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles asked the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission (the “Joint Commission“) to undertake a comprehensive review to enable the safe and responsible introduction of automated vehicles on British roads and public places. After multiple rounds of consultation, the Joint Commission published … Read more
EU – Finance On 21 September 2021, the European Banking Authority (“EBA”) published a report on the growing platformisation of the EU banking and payments sector. In particular, this report considers steps to strengthen the EBA’s supervisory capacity to monitor market developments. The findings in the report informed the EBA’s contribution to the joint European … Read more
On 14 December 2021, the joint parliamentary committee for the draft Online Safety Bill (the “Joint Committee“) published its 193-page report (the “Report“) on the draft Online Safety Bill (the “Bill“) which was published by the Government on 13 May 2021. For more on the publication of the Bill, please see our previous blog post … Read more
UK (AND OTHERS) – ADVERTISING AND MARKETING On 26 March 2021, the DCMS Committee launched an inquiry into “the power of influencers on social media, how influencer culture operates, and… the absence of regulation on the promotion of products or services, aside from the existing policies of individual platforms” with a view to assessing whether … Read more