AUSTRIA
E-Procurement in Austria
The latest major amendment of the Austrian Federal Public Procurement Act (BVergG) dates from 2018.
In implementation of the European Public Pro-curement Directives, one focus of this amendment is the so-called e-procurement (e-tender-ing).
BULGARIA
Approaching deadline to bring contracts into line with the new
GDPR Standard Contractual Clauses
In June 2021, the European Commission issued new modernized standard contractual clauses ("SCCs") for data transfers in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
CZECH REPUBLIC
Directive-equal gender listed com-panies
On 23 November 2022, a breakthrough at the level of European legislation was reached when a proposal for a Directive of the European Parlia-ment and of the Council on improving gender bal-ance among directors of listed companies was fi-nally approved by the European Parliament...
HUNGARY
New Interpretation of ‘Trade Secrets’ in Public Procurement
In recent years, Hungarian courts and regulators have taken a variety of different approaches in an attempt to strike a balance between ensuring the confidentiality of the information provided by tenderers in contract award procedures on the one hand and transparency on the other.
ROMANIA
EU Whistleblowing Directive in Romania – Update December 2022
On 12 December 2022, the committee of parlia-mentary group leaders decided to refer the Ro-manian Law transposing the Whistleblowing Di-rective back to the Legal Committee of the Cham-ber of Deputies for a supplementary report.