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UK automotive decarbonisation must not mean deindustrialisation
Under the ZEV mandate, UK automotive manufacturers have a legal obligation to ensure that a certain percentage of vehicles they make each year are ZEVs, with that percentage expected to grow on a yearly basis until the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars takes effect in the UK in 2030. Hybrid vehicles will still be permitted until 2035. From then, all new vehicles in the UK will need to be zero‑emission.
Major contract update project attaches to EU digital omnibus reforms
David Halliwell and Stephan Appt of Pinsent Masons said the proposals for a Digital Omnibus Regulation and Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation that the European Commission published in November last year contain wide-ranging reforms that will have an impact on commercial contracts.
Tesla pushes for self-driving vehicles on EU roads by early 2025
The topic of autonomous driving is at the top of the agenda. While various use cases are currently being tested from a technical perspective, regulations are progressing at national, European and UN levels forming frameworks for the various levels of automation. Germany in particular has made progress in regulating level 3 and level 4 automation in recent years, arguably taking the lead in Europe. The EU has now largely followed the German regulatory approach.
EU Data Act entering into force ‘should spur business action’
Amsterdam and Munich-based data law experts Andre Walter and Stephan Appt of Pinsent Masons said that the new Data Act could require a wide range of businesses across sectors to update terms of use relating to their connected products and amend data sharing and licensing agreements, among other things.
EU secondary market for automotive repair and maintenance receives further clarity on access to vehicle data
This will hugely affect car owners, providing them with more affordable options for repairing their cars. The 2018 automotive market surveillance regulation (Regulation 2018/858)governs the type approval and market surveillance of automotive vehicles and trailers in the EU. It focuses on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles, trailers and related components, with the aim of guaranteeing safety, environmental protection, and compliance with EU legal requirements.
Intelligence chief warns of cyber risk to LNG terminals
Head of the BND intelligence service Bruno Kahl recently warned a security conference about the expansion of targets of cyber criminal activity, according to one report. He said that conflict was spreading geographically beyond the immediate war region and was expanding into other targets. “Beyond the known spectrum the new facilities for landing liquefied gas must also be considered as possible further targets," Kahl told a forum in Stuttgart in September.
Business strategies adapt to the GDPR and its effect on technological change
Aurélie Caillard of Pinsent Masons in Luxembourg said AI has many potential benefits, to businesses, consumers and society more generally, but that safeguards are needed to protect against potential harm.
Dubai law promotes autonomous vehicle use on public roads
Under the new legal framework, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai has wide-ranging powers and duties. For example, the RTA is entrusted with developing policies and strategic plans to make it easier to operate and develop autonomous vehicles in Dubai and for ensuring Dubai’s infrastructure is equipped to support the use of such vehicles in the emirate.
Tech suppliers must understand risk in African mining project opportunities
However, while the presence of many prominent technology providers from Europe at the Mining Indaba 2023 conference in Cape Town earlier this year highlighted that that opportunity is well understood, there is a need for greater understanding of the risks of providing technology solutions to mining projects in Africa.
GDPR guidance for automated driving systems provided in Germany
Out-Law News | 22 Feb 2023 | 3:51 pm | 1 min. read Automotive manufacturers can implement sophisticated technological driving aids in a way that does not breach EU data protection law, a German state authority has said.
DSGVO-Hinweise für automatisierte Fahrsysteme veröffentlicht
In seinem kürzlich veröffentlichten Tätigkeitsbericht für das Jahr 2022 hat sich der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg mit der Frage befasst, inwieweit personenbezogene Daten beim Einsatz von Sensoren und Kameratechnik in Fahrzeugen zur Erkennung und Vermeidung von Objekten verarbeitet werden können und inwieweit personenbezogene Daten anschließend an die Fahrzeugführer weitergegeben werden.
Generating value from data: Designing & implementing a compliant data strategy
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EU looks to data and technology to reduce transport emissions
Data law and automotive sector expert Stephan Appt of Pinsent Masons in Munich said: “It will be very interesting to see how the final version of the proposed Directive will look like and how member states will transpose it into national law.
How the Schrems II ruling impacts EU data transfers to India
Out-Law / Your Daily Need-To-Know Businesses transferring personal data between the EU and India must carefully assess the measures they must take to comply with EU data protection laws in light of a ruling in 2020 to ensure they do not violate Indian law. This article was co-written by Harsh Walia and Abhinav Chandan, partner and counsel respectively at Indian law firm Khaitan & Co, along with Stephan Appt and Christina Kirichenko of Pinsent Masons.
Car insurance must evolve for autonomous vehicles
Out-Law Analysis | 26 Nov 2020 | 4:24 pm | 7 min. read Connected vehicles, especially fully autonomous vehicles, are going to profoundly change the nature of car insurance - particularly the ways in which insurers assess risk and set premiums.
Legal challenges of data-driven mobility
The mobility sector is one of the few sectors already subject to various data sharing obligations. There was recent reform in this area.
Intel looks to driverless cars market with $15.3bn deal to buy Mobileye
Intel announced that it had agreed a $15.3 billion deal to buy Mobileye on Monday in an acquisition which will see Intel's automated driving division integrated into Mobileye. Mobileye develops technology that helps advanced driver assistance systems to 'see'.
German watchdog threatens legal challenge against EU-US Privacy Shield
Hamburg's data protection commissioner Johannes Caspar said he has "serious doubts" whether the Commission was justified in determining that the Privacy Shield provides for data protection standards essentially equivalent to those provided for under EU law, according to the IAPP.
Insurers' profiling will change as autonomous vehicles hit the road, says expert
The shift from customer to car profiling is one of the likely outcomes of the shift to autonomous driving, a shift which could be just a few years away. Currently car insurers place a great deal of emphasis on the personal traits and behaviours of customers when setting premiums.
German data protection authorities limit companies' options for US data transfers
Companies with pre-existing BCRs will continue to be able to rely on those arrangements at the moment, as an EU privacy body confirmed earlier this month. However, the German watchdogs have outlined their intent to scrutinise the measures businesses have in place to safeguard personal data when it is transferred to the US in light of a recent Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruling.
More German regulators oppose model clauses for EU-US data transfers
On Wednesday, Out-Law.com reported that The Independent Centre for Privacy Protection in the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany had called on businesses relying on European Commission-approved model contract clauses to transfer personal data from the EU to the US to terminate or suspend those arrangements. The watchdog said it was its view that EU-US data transfers facilitated by the use of model clauses fail to comply with EU law.
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