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    Topics: Corporate & M&A  Dispute Resolution  Charity & mission-driven Organisations  LexCast  Environment 

    LexCast: Ethics and Sustainability in the Jewellery Industry: A Step Ahead of the Responsible Business Initiative?

    Ethics and luxury in the same sentence is not a new trend but has been around for some time. In particular, in the jewellery industry there exist a set of Responsible jewellery standards. Tomás Navarro Blakemore, Associate at FRORIEP, Pauline Evequoz, Sustainability Manager at Chopard and Diana Culillas, Secretary General of the Swiss Better Gold Association (SBGA) discuss the importance of these standards particularly for the inclusion of the various actors in the supply chain. Notwithstanding the foregoing, our guests also highlight the challenges they bring for smaller businesses when managing the related risks and improving the sustainable practices in the industry.

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    Topics: Dispute Resolution 

    The Singapore Convention on Mediation Entered into Force on 12 September 2020

    On 12 September 2020, the United Nations (UN) Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, also known as the Singapore Convention on Mediation (the Convention), entered into force.

    The Convention entered into force six months after the deposit of the third instrument of ratification, done so by Qatar on 12 March 2020. To this date, six States are Parties to the Convention, namely Singapore, Fiji, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Belarus and most recently Ecuador; already fifty three countries have signed it, including the United States, China and India.
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    Topics: LexCast  Life Sciences 

    LexCast: CBD – Novel Food or Narcotic?

    The European Commission recently announced that all CBD Novel Food applications are put on hold while it reviews whether CBD should not be classified as a food, but instead as a narcotic under the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotics of 1961. This re-classification could potentially have wide-ranging and detrimental consequences on a fast-growing industry in Europe.
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    Topics: Dispute Resolution  Sport, Media & Entertainment 

    CAS Update: Spanish Adopted as Third Official Language and Other Amendments to the Code of Sports-Related Arbitration

    FRORIEP's sports law team is glad that, as of 1 July 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has adopted Spanish as its third official language. In addition, the ICAS – CAS' governing body – has also updated some provisions of the Code of Sports-related Arbitration with regard to notifications, communications and electronic video-conferencing.

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    8 September 2020 | Nicola Benz | Cornelia Mattig
    Topics: Corporate & M&A  Data Privacy  Technology 

    Swiss-US Privacy Shield No Longer Provides an Adequate Level of Data Protection

    Today, 8 September 2020, the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner ("FDPIC") issued a press release announcing it no longer considers the Swiss-US Privacy Shield regime to provide an adequate level of data protection. The FDPIC has taken its time to consider the July 2020 Schrems II decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU"), which found the EU-US Privacy Shield to be inadequate. It has now issued this decision on the basis of its own annual assessment of the virtually identical Swiss-US Privacy Shield.
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