OUR FOCUS - SPECIALISATIONS

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.

Advice on data protection law in your everyday business

Whether it is the preparation of data protection declarations, the negotiation of order processing contracts or, for example, the legal processing and handling of data protection infringements - we accompany you as specialists.

Fulfilment of duties
from the
IT security law

We support you in a results-oriented manner in meeting IT security legal requirements, e.g. in introducing internal security guidelines or in meeting legal requirements.

Data protection assessment of products and services

Our experience shows: think about data protection requirements already in the development process of products and services - in case of doubt, this saves costly adjustments or legal risks afterwards.

GTC Update
Service

Piltz Legal ensures that your GTC are up to date and take into account developments in legislation, case law and practice.

Supply chains

Piltz Legal assists you to ensure that your purchase/sales contracts are aligned with the upstream and downstream supply contracts.

Distributors- and
Commercial agent contracts

German law is only one of several options and often not the most advantageous. We examine alternatives for you.

News

Territorial scope of NIS-2 – When does the German BSIG apply to managed service providers (MSPs) from third countries?

In a previous article (only available in German), we addressed the question of who qualifies as a managed service provider (MSP) or managed security service provider (MSSP) under the amended German Act on the Federal Office for Information Security and on information security in entities (BSI Act – BSIG) (Note: There is currently no official English translation of the current version of the BSIG. However, there is at least a machine translation by the EU.). If a company within a group of companies is centrally responsible for the operation of the group's IT, it can be classified as an MSP and thus as an important or particularly important entity within the meaning of Sec. 28 para. 1 no. 4 and/or Sec. 28 para. 2 no. 3 BSIG – provided that it falls within the scope of the BSIG.

NIS-2: Obligation to designate a representative for entities in third countries

Within the scope of the NIS-2 Directive (NIS-2-RL), situations may arise in which providers of certain NIS-2-relevant services, such as managed service providers, are based solely in a third country but offer services within the EU. According to Art. 2 (1) NIS-2 Directive, the territorial scope of application applies as soon as a company provides a service or carries out activities in the EU. Art. 26 NIS-2 Directive specifies this scope of application to the effect that, in principle, the Member State in which the entity is located and thus its respective implementing law is applicable. We have already written an article on this subject.

New awards for our partners

We are very pleased that Prof. Dr. Burghard Piltz and Dr. Carlo Piltz have received further awards from the Handelsblatt and have been included in the 16th edition of The Best Lawyers in Germany™.