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

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).