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In its judgment of 4 May 2023 (Case C-487/21), the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) specified the scope of the right to obtain a “copy” of personal data in the context of the right of access. The ECJ ruled that the copy must be used to provide the data subject with a faithful and intelligible reproduction of all personal data that are the subject of the processing. This means that extracts from documents or entire documents or, if applicable, extracts from databases must be provided if and insofar as this is necessary for the effective exercise of the rights of data subjects...

Following the submission of the first Draft of the Artificial Intelligence Act (”AI Act”) on April 21, 2021 by the European Commission for regulating artificial intelligence (AI) (we reported here), the European Parliament also published its final position on June 14, 2023. Thus, the next step now is the trilogue between the Parliament, the Council and the Commission. Since the European Parliament is to be re-elected in less than a year, the regulation is expected to come into effect quickly and with only minor changes...

A team led by Heuking Partner Dr. Peter Vocke advised a French subsidiary of HES International B.V. on the sale of the Dillinger Hafen-Umschlagsgesellschaft mbH (DHUG) to the SHS-Stahl-Holding-Saar GmbH & Co. KGaA. DHUG operates a dry bulk and break bulk terminal in Dillingen/Saar and is an important logistic provider for local and international customers in the steel industry, the energy and construction sector. HES International B.V., based in Rotterdam, is Europe's largest provider of large-scale terminals for bulk and liquid products...

A team led by capital market experts Dr. Mirko Sickinger, LL.M. and Sven Radke, LL.M. of Heuking’s Cologne office advised TRM Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (TRM) on the sale of a major portion of its shares in FORTEC Elektronik Aktiengesellschaft, Germering (FORTEC). In 2012, the two capital market experts had advised TRM on the acquisition of the shareholding and a related voluntary public takeover offer. TRM has held more than 30% of the shares in FORTEC since 2012. The current transaction reduces TRM’s shareholding to 5.16%. A group of buyers is acquiring 25.07% of the shares from TRM...