The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which applies as of 25 May 2018 - will make it easier for companies to do business across the EU. The reform will help businesses fully benefit from the digital economy throughout the EU's digital single market.

250 million people are now using the internet every day in Europe. We're sharing more and more of our personal data - whether through online banking, shopping, social media or electronic tax returns. In this fast-changing digital age, your right to protect your personal data is something which...

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which applies as of 25 May 2018 - will make it easier for companies to do business across the EU. The reform will help businesses fully benefit from the digital economy throughout the EU's digital single market.

Austrian legislation operates on the basis of constitutional principles laid down in the Federal Constitutional Act (Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz), additional constitutional legislation, the Federal Financial Constitution Act (Finanzverfassungsesetz) and the provincial constitutional acts for the...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulates the way businesses process and manage personal data. With a single European law for the protection of personal data, your company now needs to conform primarily to one data protection law while offering goods and services anywhere in the...

The National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS) are usually not part of national Parliaments' agendas; in consequence, the Member States' executives are not sufficiently accountable for them on the national level and report on them only to the EC. On the national level, the Roma remain...

Latvia is a parliamentary State, where Parliament is the only legislator. This legislator, however, has the right to delegate legislative functions to the Cabinet of Ministers and to municipalities. Delegated legislative powers always have to be made explicit in the laws adopted by Parliament....

The legal system in Romania is a civil law system. At the top of the legislative hierarchy is the Constitution, followed by organic laws, ordinary laws and government decisions. The court structure is organised at three levels - at first instance, on a first appeal and appeals on grounds of law;...

Do you take product safety for granted? Well, you may be surprised to learn that every day hundreds of people work to make sure that you are protected from dangerous products. In the European Union, this happens also thanks to the Rapid Alert System. Since its creation in 2003, new Member States...