Author: Radu Damaschin
Authors: Georgeta Dinu and Alexandru Sotropa
Authors: Lucian Barbu and Mihai Serbu
On 14 March 2018, the Romanian Senate published the legislative proposal regarding the measures aimed at implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation – “GDPR”).
Author: Radu Damaschin, Partner
The Romanian National Gambling Office has issued and published the Code of ethics on responsible communication in the field of gambling.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on 23 January 2018 in Case F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Others v Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (C-179/16) that “an arrangement between two undertakings marketing two competing products which concerns the dissemination, in a context of scientific uncertainty, to the European Medicines Agency, healthcare professionals and the general public of misleading information relating to adverse reactions resulting from the use of one of those medicinal products for the treatment of diseases not covered by the marketing authorisation of that product, with a view to reducing the competitive pressure resulting from such use on the use of the other product, constitutes a restriction of competition ‘by object’ for the purposes of [Art. 101 TFEU]”.
Authors: Ruxandra Bologa and Mirela Preda