The Government of the Republic of Serbia recently adopted a Decree on Additional Requirements for Placing on the Market Products Containing Palm Oil, Palm Fat, or Other Vegetable Oils and Fats ("Official Gazette of RS", No. 47/2025), which entered into force on 7 June 2025 (“the Decree”).
David Vucinic Joins MaxBet as Compliance and AML Officer
David Vucinic has joined MaxBet, a member of Flutter Entertainment, as its new Compliance and AML Officer.
What the Labor Inspectorate Is Interested In: Discrimination and Unequal Remuneration
The National Labour Inspectorate's report on the status of equality and discrimination in employment relations for the year 2024 shows that discrimination in the workplace is a hot topic.
Albania Adopts New Instruction on the Processing of Health and Genetic Data
As part of the broader effort to harmonise national legislation with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the Albanian Data Protection Commissioner issued Instruction No. 2, dated 30 April 2025 (Instruction No. 2), on the protection of personal data in the health sector. This Instruction repeals the previous 2020 framework and establishes a comprehensive set of rules governing the collection, use, and disclosure of health and genetic data.
Companies May Have Six More Months to Comply with the NIS2 Directive
“To comply with the cybersecurity requirements of the NIS2 directive, affected businesses may get an additional six months to prepare,” announced the Supervisory Authority for Regulatory Affairs of Hungary (SZTFH) in a statement on 5 May 2025.
The Extraterritorial Effect of Ukrainian Sanctions
The recently issued decision of the Ukrainian Supreme Court addresses the enforcement of Ukrainian sanctions in relation to foreign corporate structures and ownership chains involving a sanctioned person.
The Omnibus Package
Following the criticism of the current state of regulatory burden in The Future of European Competitiveness report by Mario Draghi (issued in September 2024) and in the Budapest Declaration by the European Council which called upon European Commission to reduce reporting requirements by at least 25 % in the first half of 2025 (issued in November 2024) the European Commission announced a series of so-called “Omnibus” simplification packages.