Monthly Archives: September 2009
ICLG: Telecommunication Laws 2010
A small plug for our contribution to the 3rd edition of the International Comparative Guide to Telecommunication Laws 2010. We drafted the chapter on Bahrain, which will shortly be available on the ICLG website. Until it is published, contact us … Continue reading
Filed under Telecoms Regulation
ADR Terms of Reference for Communications Providers
Article 20(1) of the Framework Directive 2002/21/EC requires national regulatory authorities (“NRAs”) of member states to issue binding decisions to resolve certain regulatory disputes between communications providers. However, Article 20(2) permits member states to make provisions for NRAs to decline … Continue reading
Filed under Commercial, Telecoms Regulation
HADOPI 2: an update
We’ve been alerted via Twitter (HT @clarinette02) to another problem with HADOPI 2. This is described in a recent French online journal article (Hadopi : condamné à ne pas changer d’opérateur télécom). In essence, it seems that if a customer … Continue reading
Filed under Telecoms Regulation
HADOPI II – Danger internautes
It is not often that we resurrect our GCSE/O Level French (or bug our bi- or tri-lingual colleagues – thank you Elora and Emanuela) to read a French language statute, but HADOPI II is an exception. This is the French … Continue reading
Filed under Intellectual Property, Telecoms Regulation
2e’s or not 2e’s, that is the question
In our blog on Fitzroy Robinson Ltd -v- Mentmore Towers Ltd (Key personnel?), we noted that commercial lawyers have to keep an eye out for new case law in related areas. Another important example is the recent Chancery Division insolvency case … Continue reading
Filed under Commercial, Intellectual Property
First incandescent light bulbs, next cathode ray tubes
In our blog on incandescent light bulbs, we noted that the effect of Directive 2005/32/EC is to give the European Commission the power to regulate the ecodesign requirements of a wide range of energy-using products, without the need for further … Continue reading
Filed under Commercial
Disgorgement of ill-gotten gains
Thanks to a twitter lead (HT @clarinette02), we were alerted rather late in the day to the action being taken by the Federal Trade Commission in the US against a Californian mail order company that had misused .co.uk domain names … Continue reading
Filed under Data Protection
Lights out for a bit of electrical history
1 September 2009 marked the beginning of the end for the incandescent light bulb in Europe, curtesy of the Ecodesign for Non-Directional Household Lamps Regulation, after 130 years. The Regulation is not for the faint-hearted, being a heavily technical document. So much so … Continue reading
Filed under Commercial
Andrew Sharpe
