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Getting ready for the EU MDR: New guidance documents available for manufacturers
31 August 2018 - Posted by: Eveline Van Keymeulen
During the summer months of July and August, the European Commission has published five documents aimed at guiding manufacturers and other economic operators through the changes implemented by the EU Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) and the EU In-Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR). Both regimes will be fully applicable on 26 May 2020 and on 26 › Read More
25 July 2018 - Posted by: Sophie ten Bosch
Today, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided in case C-528/16 that organisms obtained by new mutagenesis plant breeding techniques are genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and subject to the obligations laid down in the GMO-Directive (Directive 2001/18/EC). This decision interprets the GMO-Directive in light of new plant breeding techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9. Mutagenesis is › Read More
20 June 2018 - Posted by: Marjan Noor
In the case of Jushi Group v OCV [2018] EWCA Civ 1416, the Court of Appeal has considered the question of the relevant test to apply when assessing whether a prior disclosure of numerical ranges will anticipate a later claim to overlapping numerical ranges. The patent at issue relates to the composition of a type › Read More
24 April 2018 - Posted by: Tine Carmeliet
On 14 March 2018, the European General Court (General Court) ruled that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have the right to request that the European Commission (Commission) review a decision that authorises the placing of genetically modified food and feed on the market. The background to this judgment relates to a Commission’s 2015 decision in which the › Read More
WP 29 releases an extensive opinion on data processing at work
07 August 2017 - Posted by: Inge Vanderreken
The EU’s “Article 29 Working Party” (WP29) has adopted new guidance on the processing of personal data in the employment context (the New Opinion). This New Opinion complements their 2001 opinion and 2002 working document. WP29 is the Data Protection Working Party established by Article 29 of Directive 95/46/EC. It is an independent European advisory › Read More