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Auditors Push for Access to ECB Records on Bank Supervision
January 16, 2019
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has published a press release pushing EU lawmakers to force the European Central Bank (ECB) to open up its records to ECA scrutiny and allow proper auditing of the ECB’s banking supervision across the bloc.
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EC Investigates Dutch Tax Treatment of Nike
January 16, 2019
The European Commission (EC) has launched an investigation to determine whether certain Dutch tax rulings regarding US-based apparel company Nike breached EU “state aid” rules by helping to reduce the company’s taxable base in the Netherlands.
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EU Agency Seeks Bolstering of Crypto-assets Regulation
January 16, 2019
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published advice asserting that the reach of the bloc’s current financial regulatory framework does not reach certain “crypto-assets” and that EU institutions are best-placed to plug the gaps in the regulation of such assets on an EU-wide basis.
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ECJ Adviser Seeks Geographic Limit for “Right to Be Forgotten”
January 16, 2019
CNBC reports that Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) Advocate General Maciej Szpunar advised the ECJ to rule that, under the EU’s “right to be forgotten” framework, search engines like Google are only required to remove access to content from users located in the EU - though in some future cases deletion of content from Google’s global platform could be warranted.
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ECJ Official: Search Engines Must Balance Rights When Deleting Links
January 16, 2019
Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) Advocate General Maciej Szpunar has advised the ECJ to rule that EU data-processing rules apply to search engines, such as Google, and that these platforms must perform a balancing test between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of expression when determining whether to take down content.