Regulations

The EU has listed three Colombian nationals operating an employment agency that recruited 350–380 retired Colombian soldiers, including drone operators and child soldiers' instructors, to fight for the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. The network has...
Parliament and Council have amended the HDV CO2 Regulation to allow truck manufacturers to generate more emission credits between 2025 and 2029 than the existing framework permitted. The 2030 targets remain unchanged; what changes is how...

Commission Fixes Maximum Timelines and Mandatory Cost Disclosure for Medical Device Certifiers

A new implementing regulation imposes binding maximum timelines and standardised quotation requirements on notified bodies certifying medical devices and IVDs under the MDR and...

New Round Of Anti-Dumping Duties on Chinese Acid as European Industry Consolidates

Definitive anti-dumping duties of between 29.1% and 42.3% are now in force on imports of adipic acid from China, following a fourteen-month investigation. The...

EU Opens Agricultural Quotas on the Mercosur Deal

Commission Implementing Regulation 2026/996 creates and amends tariff-rate quotas for agricultural imports from Mercosur countries with provisional application of the Interim Trade Agreement from...

Cyber Resilience Act Consolidates Radio Equipment Cybersecurity Rules

The 2022 delegated regulation that first imposed cybersecurity requirements on connected radio equipment is repealed with effect from 11 December 2027, right when the...

Nine Synthetic Drug Precursors Move to Category 1 of EU Scheduled Substances List

Precursors of mephedrone, clophedrone, and amphetamine, including one used in the antidepressant bupropion, move to the strictest EU control category from 18 September 2026,...

Cosmetics Regulation: Triphenyl Phosphate Banned, Aluminium Capped, Three Hair Dyes Authorised

A sweeping update to EU cosmetics law restricts or bans eleven substances and newly permits three hair dye compounds, with compliance deadlines running from...

New Provisional Anti-Dumping Duties Imposed on Chinese Pea Protein

Provisional duties of up to 67.4% on Chinese pea protein imports take effect immediately, targeting a market where Chinese producers hold nearly 60% share...

Myanmar Sanctions Renewed as Min Aung Hlaing Takes the Presidency

The EU extends its Myanmar restrictive measures regime until April 2027, amending 33 individual listings and 9 entity entries to reflect the junta's institutional...

Four Asian Currency Benchmarks Are Too Embedded to Regulate. Brussels has acknowledged this.

EU investment funds and corporates rely on dollar-rupee, dollar-won, dollar-Taiwan dollar, and dollar-peso benchmarks to hedge their Asian currency exposure. None of those benchmarks...

The Forced Labour Ban Has an Enforcement Infrastructure Now

Regulation (EU) 2024/3015 prohibited products made with forced labour from the EU market. What it lacked was the digital backbone to make that prohibition...

Germany’s Forests Are Emitting More Than They Absorb. This Has Now Become a Legal Problem.

Two instruments published together set every member state’s binding annual carbon budget through 2030: one for land and forests, one for transport, buildings, and...

Animal Product Import from Botswana, Canada, UK, and US Suspended Over Disease Outbreaks

An implementing regulation removes protection zone status for foot-and-mouth disease in Botswana and suspends HPAI-free certification for zones in three third countries. Re-authorisations cover...

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