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13. 12. 2022 · Publications and newsletters
Will the Register of Beneficial Owners be non-public or what will be the consequences of the CJEU’s decision to invalidate part of the AML Directive?The CJEU ruled in November 2022 (Joined Cases C-37/20 and C-601/20) that the AML Directive provision requiring public access to beneficial-owner data is invalid, yet the Czech Act on Registration of Beneficial…
28. 6. 2022 · Publications and newsletters
Updated instruments for the transfer of personal data to non-EU countries – time to re-contract is running shortWith only six months left before the 28 December 2022 deadline, companies still using the old Standard Contractual Clauses must re-contract using the Commission's 2021 SCCs, whose use it has now clarified…
21. 1. 2022 · Publications and newsletters
New cookie rules effective from 1 January 2022An amendment to the Electronic Communications Act effective 1 January 2022 requires freely given opt-in consent for cookies on Czech websites, bans dark patterns and pre-ticked boxes, and limits consent validity to…
23. 8. 2021 · Publications and newsletters
Updated instruments for the transfer of personal data to non-EU countries – standard contractual clauses version 2021: seventeen months to re-contractThe European Commission's new Standard Contractual Clauses, in force since 27 June 2021, replace the 2001/2010 templates to reflect the GDPR and the CJEU's Schrems II ruling, giving companies until 27 December…
24. 11. 2020 · Publications and newsletters
DIGITISATION OF ACCOUNTING AND TAX DOCUMENTS UNDER THE APPLICABLE LEGISLATIONHAVEL & PARTNERS tax experts explain that Czech law lacks clear rules for digitising paper accounting and tax documents, outlining the scanning, audit-trail and archiving safeguards required under the Accounting Act and…
23. 3. 2020 · Publications and newsletters
Home office: What employers should bear in mindHAVEL & PARTNERS' Privacy Flash sets out nine GDPR recommendations for employers moving staff to home office during COVID-19, covering health data on quarantined employees, secure videoconferencing, document handling, employee monitoring and…
30. 8. 2018 · Articles and Interviews
Clinical trials and personal data protection: A new notice from SUKLThe Czech State Institute for Drug Control (SUKL) told clinical-trial sponsors not to submit personal-data documents with authorisation applications, but the GDPR legal basis for transferring subjects' data between investigators and sponsors…
1. 8. 2018 · Publications and newsletters
08-2018 Pharma FlashThe August 2018 issue of HAVEL & PARTNERS' Pharma Flash newsletter reports on a new notice from the Czech State Institute for Drug Control (SUKL) addressing personal data protection in clinical trials.
5. 3. 2018 · Significant Matters
Advisory to the dm drogerie markt chain on the launch of an e-shopHAVEL & PARTNERS, led by partner Ivan Rámeš, advised dm drogerie markt on launching its Czech e-shop, covering the consumer purchasing process, GDPR-compliant data processing and logistics contracts for deliveries in the…
