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The Renewable Energy Communities for Italian SMEs: a sustainable future
by Margherita Grassi Catapano
The legal form. What they are, what objectives they have, what rules they must follow.
Milan, March 2024
by Margherita Grassi Catapano and Veronica Falchi
The reform has expanded the subjects of mandatory mediation and modified the structure of the procedure in order to encourage the informed participation of the parties and has regulated the online conduct of the procedure.
Milan, 4 October 2023
Awaiting the United Sections on certification powers
of the lawyer and the power of attorney to litigate
by Margherita Grassi Catapano and Veronica Falchi
Power of attorney to litigate: the lawyer's certification power.
The ongoing jurisprudential conflict and some reflections on the "natively digital" power of attorney.
Milan, August 2, 2023
Punitive damages: are there openings in our legal system for damage in re ipsa?by Margherita Grassi Catapano and Serena Vadalà Proof of damage: recognition of punitive damages in our legal system is still far off
Milan, July 12, 2023
Credit protection and the European Union: a historic ruling
by Margherita Grassi Catapano and Christian Cozzi
Let's comment together on the historic Supreme Court United Sections ruling no. 9479/2023 Milan, June 26, 2023
Will the European Union be able to regulate artificial intelligence? by Manuela Bianchi
The European Parliament has voted on the new version of the Artificial Intelligence Act, which tries to regulate new technologies. And it is not an easy task.
Milan, June 17, 2023
Open Innovation: the network contract by Margherita Grassi Catapano and Veronica Falchi
Wanted: companies or professionals to network with!
Companies and professionals can ride the wave of innovation with the network contract: a legal instrument provided for by our legal system for many years now, which is now more timely than ever to use. We at Wlex talk about it in this article. Milan, June 12, 2023
How the legal profession is changing, the ESG lawyer figure by Emanuela Gallo and Francesca Sutti
Apparently, it is not true that the lawyer is that somewhat austere figure, sometimes ambitious, sometimes dusty, whom one turns to (only) to sort out problems and vent one's litigiousness. And, apparently, it is not even true that the legal profession is based (only) on codes, rules, volumes of judgments, and commentaries.
In fact, disproving common opinion comes this recent mutation of the "lawyer" genre: the ESG lawyer [...].
Milan, May 3, 2023
ICGL - Sanctions Italy 2023
Francesca Sutti, Alessandra Staropoli and Alice Silvis
Sanctions are diplomatic or economic measures aimed at causing a change in violations of international rules, himan rights, rule of law and/or democratic principles. [...] Milan, 30/09/2022
Self-preferencing, Big Tech and antitrust violation
by Francesca Sutti
Self-preferencing, that is, the alleged violation of antitrust law, has come under the spotlight in Europe with the Commission's ruling in the Google Shopping case, a ruling that was essentially confirmed by the General Court on November 10, 2021. Self-preferencing is also the basis for the sanction of over one billion euros imposed by the Italian Antitrust Authority on Amazon [...]
Milan, January 5, 2022
Exploitation abuses and unfair prices
Speech by Francesca Sutti at the VI Conference organized by the Italian Antitrust Association: The main developments in European Union and National competition.
Rome 21-21 October 2021
Italy WLex: Francesca Sutti & Margherita Grassi Catapano
1.1 Please identify the scope of claims that may be brought in your jurisdiction for breach of competition law.Those who claim to have been affected by a breach of competition law may bring an action before the civil courts to ask for compensation, restitution, declaration of nullity and unenforceability and interim measures.
1.2 What is the legal basis for bringing an action for
breach of competition law? A civil action may be brought because of a possible infringement of the Italian Competition Law (Law No. 287/90) and/or of Articles
101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union (TFEU) [...]
Milan 7 October 2021
Power and Autonomy of Big Tech, Recent International Rulings
by Francesca Sutti
The American antitrust wants to break up Facebook, starting with WhatsApp. Meanwhile, another authority, this time European and for privacy, clarifies that Facebook and WhatsApp cannot transfer data between themselves as if they were a single entity just because they are part of the same group.
More precisely, the Irish Data Privacy Commissioner has fined WhatsApp Inc., controlled by Facebook, 225 million euros: the heaviest penalty ever imposed by this authority.
The decision adopted by the authority concerns the (alleged) failure by WhatsApp to fulfill its transparency obligations regarding the use and collection of its users' data, as well as the sharing of the same with Facebook [...]
22 September 2021
Women and politics: the summer push towards gender equality
By Paola Furini and Sara Spadafora
Sicily and – albeit with a substitute intervention by the Government – Apulia are the Regions that, having fallen behind, made progress against gender discrimination during the past summer, adopting measures to ensure a more balanced representation between men and women in elective offices.
Interventions that are now more necessary than ever, especially in Regions like those just mentioned, where the almost total lack of female presence in institutions has made it appropriate to adopt measures to encourage access to political office [...]
Milan, October 20, 2020
Digital Single Market: new European Electronic Communications Code and Recovery Fund
By Margherita Grassi Catapano and Lucrezia Puliatti
By December 21, 2020, the Italian State (as well as all EU Member States) is required to implement the Directive that established the new European Electronic Communications Code (Directive 2018/1972); this is being done through the European delegation law of January 23, 2020. This is a measure with a high degree of innovation as its aim is to create the digital single market at the European level [...]
Milan, September 29, 2020
Single network and antitrust law: a difficult marriage
By Francesca Sutti and Alessandra Staropoli
The creation of a single ultra-fast broadband network intended to cover the entire national territory seems, at first glance, like a project capable of bringing great benefits to consumers. After all, the coverage of less accessible areas, the so-called white areas, is not very attractive for potential private investors due to the low profitability of the investment [...]
Milan, 25 September 2020The Joint Survey by the Privacy Authority, AGCM, AGCOM: some points for reflection
By Francesca Sutti and Costanza Riva
The publication of the Report on the fact-finding investigation on Big Data, conducted jointly by the Authority for Communications Guarantees, the Competition and Market Authority, and the Data Protection Authority, dates back to February of this year. In almost three years of investigation, the three authorities have been intensely dedicated to analyzing the phenomenon of intense inspection activity by the Privacy Authority [...]
Milan, 28 February 2020
Edited by Paola Furini
"… and if it’s a girl, she will be called Futuraaaaa…"It’s impossible for people of my generation to read this verse without humming it to the catchy notes of the very famous song by Lucio Dalla [...]
Milan, January 15, 2020
As part of its charitable activities, on November 22, the firm
will keep its offices open to introduce the non-profit organization "La forza di un sorriso" and its activities, as well as artisanal products from Senegal. For more information about the non-profit organization:
Milan, November 22, 2019
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On the inspection activities of the Privacy Guarantor
By Margherita Grassi Catapano and Francesca Sutti
Period of intense inspection activity by the Privacy Guarantor. As can be seen from the Newsletter of October 28, 2019, from the same Guarantor, the inspections scheduled with the help of the special unit of the Guardia di Finanza are about a hundred. In the first half of 2019, 779 cases were registered, and another 500 will soon be registered [...]
Milan, November 6, 2019
Europe intervenes on online platform providers
By Francesca Sutti and Lucrezia Puliatti
The constant increase in the use of the online market by buyers has led to a rise in the number of companies that produce goods or offer services that entrust sales activities to ecommerce intermediaries (the so-called eMarketplace operators)[...]
Milan, 24 September 2019
Young adults and the European Supreme Court
Edited by Paola Furini
Art and literature have always described young adults as individuals who, although incomplete, do not know they are. In recent times Bernard Cornwell in the novel “The Knight and His King”, presents the topic through the protagonist who, reflecting, says [...]
Milan, July 9, 2019
The revolution of digital payments, the strong authentication system begins
By Margherita Grassi Catapano and Francesca Sutti
The exponential growth of e-commerce is a phenomenon known to all. But perhaps not everyone, starting with the very companies that sell online, is aware of the great revolution in digital payments that will come into force on September 14, 2019 [...]
Milan, July 31, 2019
Beyond the Consumer Code: what other defense tools for the consumer?
Speech by Francesca Sutti at the 5th Conference organized by the Italian Antitrust Association: The main developments in European Union and National competition.
Florence, May 24 and 25, 2019
The Court of Cassation intervenes again on the subject of copyright
By Francesca Sutti and Giacomo Dalla Valentina
A few months after the significant decision by the Italian Competition Authority (AGCM), which found certain abusive practices by the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE), already analyzed in this journal, a new ruling, this time from the Third Criminal Section of the Court of Cassation, further defines the boundaries of [...]."
Milan, February 4, 2019
The Commission wants to launch the New Deal for consumers
By Francesca Sutti and Giacomo Dalla Valentina
"A few months after the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2018/302, with which the European legislator intervened on the subject of geoblocking, the Juncker Commission is once again addressing consumer protection, presenting a detailed reform plan for the relevant regulations: not without a certain emphasis on the well-known Rooseveltian precedent, the executive has defined the reform as a "new deal" [...]."
Milan, 10 May 2018
Geoblocking, Digital Single Market ever closer?
By Francesca Sutti and Fabrizio Rapicano
"It is well known that e-commerce is increasingly "user-friendly" and reaches a vast plethora of users. However, it is not always easy to buy from a foreign site: in many cases, the platform automatically redirects to the site of the country where the user is located. The reason for this mechanism is intuitive: the seller does not want to give up diversifying their [...]."
Milan, April 13, 2018
Misleading advertising leads to record fines in Italy
By Francesca Sutti and Federich Romby
"In late February 2018 the Italian Competition Authority (“ICA” or the “Authority”) set a precedent in a case involving the provision of telecommunications services with specific reference to the supply of fibre optic communication networks. The ICA determined that claims by operators concerning the exclusive use of optical fibre connectivity services must fully inform users [...]."
Milan, April 4, 2018
Italian sounding vs. Made in Italy: The final "coup de grâce" from the EU
By Francesca Sutti and Paola Ghezzi
The European Commission has recently published the draft Regulation for the application of Article 26(3) of Regulation no. 1169/2011 concerning the country of origin or place of provenance of the primary ingredient of a food where the latter is different from that given for the same food. The scope of the Regulation is to implement the provisions concerning the information [...]."
Milan, February 5, 2018
Made in Italy or just Italian sounding?
By Francesca Sutti and Federich Romby
"When it comes to food, Italy is commonly perceived as synonymous of quality and gusto. But how can consumers be sure that products that sound Italian such as pasta or salame or are genuinely Italian?The “Made in Italy” declaration can be legitimately used for goods wholly obtained in Italy or that underwent their last substantial transformation (i.e. the process of making [...]."
Milan, November 27, 2017
Cryptocurrencies and the consumer: some legal considerations
By Francesca Sutti and Federich Romby
"The European Union has recently stated its intention to soon regulate cryptocurrencies, primarily in order to introduce rules to protect users, especially consumers. However, this clashes with the logic of cryptocurrencies, since it affects the speed of transactions, a speed that traditional systems cannot achieve. The ECB itself [...]."
Milan, 24 November 2017
E-commerce and new business models: dropshipping
By Francesca Sutti and Federich Romby
"Modern business is characterized by increasingly rapid exchanges. Companies are called upon to respond to demanding and sophisticated customers. As a result, especially in the field of e-commerce, new business models are developing, both among large platforms and among micro-enterprises. Among these models is dropshipping. [...]."
Milan, September 29, 2017
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