PILTZ LEGAL PERFORMANCE PORTFOLIO

Contemporary legal advice combines sound specialist knowledge, responsiveness, constant consultation with the client and traditionally good legal craftsmanship - all this characterises Piltz Legal. We are active in the increasingly complex areas of digitisation and data protection law as well as in traditional, in particular international, contract, commercial and business law. IT security is a topic for you? For us too, from a legal point of view.

What does this mean for you? Precise advice and support on individual topics and a portfolio of options for your complex everyday business. We correspond in German, English and Spanish.

Data Protection
Law

GDPR, ePrivacy, BDSG or TTDSG - we support you in fulfilling data protection obligations and find solutions with you.

IT Security
Law

We advise you on the implementation of legal requirements for the protection of company information and (personal) data.

International
Procurement and
sales of goods,
Supply chains

UN Sales Law/CISG, Incoterms and foreign trade contracts keep us constantly busy.

IT Law

What do you have to pay attention to when using cloud service providers or outsourcing your IT? We support you in IT legal issues.

Law of the
Digitisation

Both the "Internet of Things" and the sale of "digital goods" are familiar legal terrain for us and part of our advisory spectrum.

International
Commercial and
Distribution Law

Cross-border contracts pose challenges not familiar from national transactions.

Administrative
Law

We support you in administrative law proceedings and represent your interests towards authorities. Our focus here is on data protection proceedings.

International dispute resolution, arbitration

Promising international prosecution requires prudent preliminary considerations.

Distributor/
Commercial Agent-
Law

Distributors and commercial agents are internationally particularly protected business partners.

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™.