Crypto and Laws

• China: State Council Issues Rules on Normative Documents

  28-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 394

  (Aug. 28, 2018) On May 31, 2018, the State Council (China’s cabinet) issued a circular on the making of normative documents, which are...

• Brazil: Personal Data Protection Law Enacted

  28-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 200

  (Aug. 28, 2018) On August 14, 2018, Brazil enacted Law No. 13,709 for the protection of personal data in the country. ( Lei No. 13.709 , de 14 de...

• Egypt: President Ratifies Law Amending Residency and Citizenship Laws

  27-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 142

  (Aug. 27, 2018) On August 14, 2018, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified Law No. 173 of 2018, which allows foreign nationals who...

• Japan: Commercial Code Amended, Language Modernized

  27-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 127

  (Aug. 27, 2018) Japan’s  Commercial Code (Act No. 48 of 1899, as amended , e-Gov website (in Japanese)) was amended and promulgated...

• European Union: European Court of Justice Strengthens Rights of Copyright Holders

  24-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 275

  (Aug. 24, 2018) On August 7, 2018, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that the download and subsequent posting on a website of a photograph...

• Belgium: Proposed Amendment on Removal of Abortion from Penal Code

  23-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 349

  (Aug. 23, 2018) On August 1, 2018, the Justice Commission of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives adopted a bill introduced by representatives...

• United Arab Emirates: Federal Supreme Court Orders Drivers to Pay Blood Money After Killing Pedestrians

  22-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 387

  (Aug. 22, 2018) The Federal Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has ordered faulty drivers in two separate cases of traffic fatalities...

• Australia: Bills Containing New Espionage, Foreign Interference Offenses, and Establishing Foreign Agent Registry Enacted

  21-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 420

  (Aug. 21, 2018) On June 28, 2018, the Australian Parliament passed the National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign...

• Japan: Smoking Regulations Are Getting Stricter

  20-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 460

  (Aug. 20, 2018) Japan has strengthened its tobacco regulations with an act to amend the Health Promotion Act. The amending act was promulgated on...

• China: Tax Incentives Extended to More Small Businesses

  17-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 605

  (Aug. 17, 2018) On July 11, 2018, China’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) and State Administration of Taxation (SAT) jointly issued a notice...

• China: 2020 Air Pollution Action Plan Released

  16-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 663

  (Aug. 16, 2018) On June 27, 2018, the State Council (China’s cabinet) released a three-year action plan for tackling air pollution, which...

• Sweden: Supreme Court Rules Live Broadcast of Rape Is Aggravated Defamation but Not Violation of Duty to Report Ongoing Rape

  8-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 969

  (Aug. 8, 2018) On July 2, 2018, the Swedish Supreme Court ruled that a man who had filmed an ongoing rape and broadcast it on Facebook Live was...

• Norway: Supreme Court Rules on Boundaries of Hate Speech

  7-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 87

  (Aug. 7, 2018) On April 12, 2018, the Norwegian Supreme Court issued a judgment under which a person was sentenced to prison for hate speech....

• Egypt: Parliament Passes Amendments to Media and Press Law

  6-8-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 592

  (Aug. 6, 2018) In a plenary session on July 15, 2018, the Egyptian Parliament approved amendments to Law No. 92 of 2016 regulating the work of...

• China: Courts Required to Provide Judicial Process Information Through One Online Platform

  31-7-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 701

  (July 31, 2018) China’s highest court, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC), recently released the Provisions on the Publication of...

• Germany: New Law Allows Consumer Class Actions

  31-7-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 1410

  (July 31, 2018) On July 17, 2018, a new law to allow consumer class actions (“model declaratory proceedings”) was published in...

• Norway: Government Publishes First Drone Strategy

  31-7-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 1419

  (July 31, 2018) On April 3, 2018, the Norwegian government published its first drone strategy. (Press Release, Regjeringen [Government], Norges...

• Comoros: Planned Constitutional Referendum on Presidential Term Limits Leads to Crisis

  30-7-2018 Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 1347

  (July 30, 2018) On April 29, 2018, Comoros’s President Sem Azali Assoumani declared that a referendum on amending the country’s...