The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Telecoms, Media & Internet Laws 2017

The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Telecoms, Media & Internet Laws 2017 has been published. BEHRING exclusive chapter for France is available here . ...
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Net neutrality: BEREC publishes guidelines in favour of the proponents of the net neutrality

After a public consultation which gave rise to many contributions, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) published its guidelines on 30 August 2016. ...
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Privacy Shield: a threatened future

On July 12th 2016, the European Commission issued an adequacy decision according to which it recognizes that the Privacy Shield provides a level of protection “essentially equivalent” to European requirements. ...
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Brexit: possible consequences on data protection

On June 24th 2016, the United Kingdom voted its withdrawal from the European Union (EU).

Under article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the United Kingdom (UK) will have to serve notice of intention to exit the EU to the European Commission. The UK will then have a two year period to negotiate...
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The BEREC launched a public consultation on draft guidelines regarding net neutrality

The European Regulation (UE) 2015/2120 adopted in November 2015 laying down measures concerning open internet access entered into force on April 30th 2016. On June 6th 2016, the BEREC launched a public consultation on ...
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The new Regulation on the protection of data privacy will enter into force on May 25th, 2018

The Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data which was adopted by the European Parliament on April 14th, 2016 was published on the Official Journal of the European Union on May...
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The French Competition Authority fines 15 million euros Altice/Numericable group for non-compliance with some of the commitments related to the acquisition of SFR

By a decision of April 19th, 2016 , the French Competition Authority sentenced Altice/Numericable group to pay a fine of 15 million euros for non-compliance with some of the commitments taken at the time of the acquisition of SFR regarding the divestiture of Outremer Telecom’s...
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FttH is the “real fiber”

Is FttB, as FttH, the “real fiber”? The government decided, with the approval of ARCEP , to give a negative answer and, therefore, to rule in favor of Orange and Free against Numericable-SFR....
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Privacy Shield: promises of a better protection of personal data

Since the Court of Justice of the European Union declared on October 6, 2015 that the "Safe Harbor" was invalid , a new framework for transatlantic data flows has been expected in order to facilitate the transfer of personal data to the United States. ...
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The KOSC consortium has been approved by the French competition authority for the takeover of COMPLETEL's DSL network.

In a press release dated December 22 , 2015, the French competition authority (Autorité de la concurrence) announced that it authorized the KOSC consortium to take over COMPLETEL's DSL network.

This authorization follows the competition authority's decision 14-DCC-160 of October 30, 2014,...
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