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In the increasingly complex everyday life of a company, legal topics overlap and continuously raise a wide variety of questions. Therefore, it is not only the subject area that is important, but also the expertise for practical application and implementation in a wide range of industries.
Piltz Legal has particular expertise in advising and assisting companies as well as public authorities and institutions. Our advice focuses on topics related to digitalisation, data protection, IT security and law, as well as contract law issues in international trade and distribution.
Our focus is on advice, support and preventive positioning, but also on defence in administrative and data protection law proceedings. We see our task as clarifying issues for companies in a practical manner and identifying and minimising legal risks.
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Whistleblower protection and the right of access on a collision course – challenges in the parallel application of whistleblower protection and Art. 15 GDPR
The enactment and applicability of the German implementation law (“German Whistleblower Protection Act”) for the Whistleblowing Directive (Directive (EU) 2019/1937) is in sight even though the law was not passed yet because the “Bundesrat” did not agree to the text adopted by the “Bundestag”. It might still take some time until the two parliaments agree on a final text. However, there is time pressure due to Germany already falling far behind the deadline for the implementation of the European Directive. This also means that the legal obligation to set up an internal reporting channel is getting closer for very many German companies (all with generally at least 250 employees).
NIS-2 Directive: New provisions to strengthen cyber resilience and security
The Directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union ("NIS-2 Directive") published in the Official Journal of the European Union on December 27, 2022, aims to harmonize cybersecurity requirements in the EU and imposes new cybersecurity obligations on companies. It will replace the previously applicable NIS Directive.
Cyber Resilience Act - Overview of new cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements
In September 2022, the European Commission published its proposal for the Cyber Resilience Act ("CRA", Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020).