{"id":3662,"date":"2025-01-01T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/2025\/01\/review-of-the-eu-legislation-for-12-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T09:00:36","slug":"review-of-the-eu-legislation-for-12-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/2025\/01\/review-of-the-eu-legislation-for-12-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the EU legislation for 12\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>1. Organic Import Controls<\/h3>\n<p>The regulation introduces flexible sampling rates for high-risk organic imports from third countries, replacing mandatory 100% checks. Control frequencies can vary between origin countries and EU border controls, while maintaining documentation requirements.<\/p>\n<h3>2. REACH Regulation Correction<\/h3>\n<p>Technical correction to French version of REACH Regulation&#8217;s Annex XVII, fixing concentration levels for substances in entries 68 and 73.<\/p>\n<h3>3. Cherry and Plum Imports<\/h3>\n<p>Removes certain Prunus species from high-risk plants list when imported from UK, establishing new phytosanitary requirements including pest control measures, site inspections, and certification.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Baltic Sea Fishing Restrictions<\/h3>\n<p>Establishes new conservation measures in five Baltic Sea protected areas, prohibiting mobile bottom contacting gear and requiring vessel monitoring systems. Includes 4-mile alert zones and specific transit rules.<\/p>\n<h3>5. Crypto-asset Reporting<\/h3>\n<p>Sets technical standards for reporting requirements related to asset-referenced and e-money tokens, covering holder information, reserve assets, and transaction data. Applies from January 2025.<\/p>\n<h3>Court Judgments<\/h3>\n<p>Several significant rulings on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VAT treatment of contract termination payments<\/li>\n<li>Jurisdiction for software contracts<\/li>\n<li>Criminal proceedings and plea agreements<\/li>\n<li>Data protection for COVID-19 certificates<\/li>\n<li>Police collection of biometric data<\/li>\n<li>Electricity market definitions<\/li>\n<li>Pension fund classifications<\/li>\n<li>Trade secrets in competition proceedings<\/li>\n<li>Financial supervision confidentiality<\/li>\n<li>Emissions trading obligations in insolvency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Organic Import Controls The regulation introduces flexible sampling rates for high-risk organic imports from third countries, replacing mandatory 100% checks. Control frequencies can vary between origin countries and EU border controls, while maintaining documentation requirements. 2. REACH Regulation Correction Technical correction to French version of REACH Regulation&#8217;s Annex XVII, fixing concentration levels for substances&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu-legislation-general-en","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"patreon-level":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}