by stefanie | Nov 20, 2024 | World Focus
The Council has adopted a regulation prohibiting products in the Union market that are made using forced labour. The text forbids the placing and making available on the Union market, or the export from the Union market, of any product made using forced labour. This...
by stefanie | Mar 26, 2024 | World Focus
The European Commission recently unveiled the EU toolbox against counterfeiting, a comprehensive plan aimed at fortifying the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) both online and offline. This initiative seeks to enhance collaboration among rights...
by stefanie | Mar 18, 2024 | World Focus
The Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether AliExpress may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to the management and mitigation of risks, to content moderation and the internal complaint handling mechanism, to the...
by stefanie | Aug 24, 2023 | World Focus
As Frans Timmermans steps aside to pursue Dutch politics, Maros Sefcovic assumes control of the European Green Deal, raising anticipation and concern in the office imaging sector regarding the fate of impending eco-labelling legislation amid shifting political tides....
by stefanie | Mar 31, 2023 | World Focus
The Right to Repair coalition (R2R), welcomed the step forward of the “EU Right to Repair proposal”, but notes the EU’s lack of ambition to make repairability an affordable reality. R2R said that the proposal does not address the burning issues of the affordability of...