By Vincent Wellens | Barbara Giroud | Anne-Sophie Morvan |Carmen Schellekens | NautaDutilh On 12 September 2017, a highly awaited bill implementing and complementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR (Regulation No 2016/679) was submitted to the Luxembourg Parliament. Since the GDPR is a European regulation, its provisions will be directly applicable in Luxembourg as from 25 May 2018. However, the Member States have a number of options when it comes to implementing the GDPR. Luxembourg has made use...

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By Michael Molenaars | Jeroen Smits | Maarten de Bruin | Emile Bongers | Reinout de Boer | Robert Jean Kloprogge | Stibbe On 19 September it was budget day (Prinsjesdag) in the Netherlands on which the Dutch government announced several bills containing tax law proposals. In this Tax Alert we will provide you with a summary of the main proposals relevant for international businesses. Most attention will be given to the proposal regarding changes to the Dutch dividend withholding tax...

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By Caroline Tang  | Austin | caroline.tanogletree.com The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced, on September 18, 2017, that it has resumed premium processing for all H-1B visa petitions subject to the fiscal year (FY) 2018 cap. USCIS had originally announced on March 3, 2017 that it would be suspending the premium processing program for all H-1B petitions received on April 3, 2017 or later, including all of the “cap-subject” H-1B petitions for FY 2018. This resumption of premium processing...

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 By Philip L. Gordon | Shareholder | pgordonlittler.com  With summer holidays over and only eight months remaining in the two-year enforcement grace period, U.S. multinational employers and their European Union (EU) subsidiaries have little time to spare before starting to address compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR or the “Regulation”), the EU’s new data protection framework.  By May 25, 2018, the corporate group will need to implement new poliies, procedures, and practices to address the GDPR’s many...

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BY GRUNFELD | DESIDERIO | LEBOWITZ |SILVERMAN & KLESTADT LLP The FTC has updated the process by which firms can obtain a Registered Identification Number (commonly referred to as an “RN Number”) for use in connection with the sale and/or distribution of textile, fur and wool products. At the same time, the Commission has sought to remind the Trade that Registered Identification Numbers are subject to cancellation if a person or firm to whom a Registered Identification Number has been assigned fails...

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By Loyens & Loeff News The EU Council of Economy and Finance ministers (Ecofin) agreed at their meeting in Tallinn on 16 September 2017 that companies active in the ‘digital economy’ in EU countries should pay more tax. The Ecofin aims at reaching a common understanding on the outline of the new EU-wide tax rules by December this year. This development will have an important impact on cross-border businesses in the EU. The European Commission will first present a white...

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By Allan E. Goodman |   President and CEO | Institute of International Education   Dear Sir/Madame, On behalf of all my colleagues at IIE, I am writing to invite you to join us for the third IIE Summit on Generation Study Abroad, which will be held in Washington, DC on October 1-3. We created Generation Study Abroad and this annual event because international ought to be a part of everyone's education, and preparing students to enter the ever-expanding and interconnected economy is vital...

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By Luca Gambini and Elisa Stefanini 1. Introduction For the first time in Italy, a court has affirmed that when a data controller changes, there is no need to acquire new consent from the participants of a research project involving the processing of sensitive data, should the research purposes not change. Such an innovative principle is particularly relevant in the case of a merger and acquisition (M&A) deal involving a change of ownership of a database containing sensitive data such as a...

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By Josh Epstein | Director of Communications, New York | josh.epsteindlapiper.com |+1 212 776 3838 DLA Piper is pleased to announce that it has been recognized as a "powerhouse" law firm for class actions and complex commercial litigation by BTI Consulting Group in its recently published BTI Litigation Outlook 2018 report. The firm was also named a "standout" in IP litigation, securities and finance litigation, complex employment litigation, everyday employment litigation, product liability litigation and everyday commercial litigation. DLA Piper was one...

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By Sarah Cadiot - Associate: Privacy and Data Protection - scadiotwsgr.com | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati On January 10, 2017, the European Commission published a Proposal for a Regulation (Proposal) relating to privacy rules for the electronic communications sector. The Proposal will impose new, more rigorous privacy regulatory obligations on nearly all companies doing business in the EU over the Internet. It will address a host of important issues including the processing of communications content and metadata, and the...

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