Die Europäische Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO) erhöht das Schutzniveau von personenbezogenen Daten und vereinheitlicht es europaweit. Reagieren müssen darauf alle Unternehmen, die personenbezogene Daten verarbeiten. Dies hat ganz unterschiedliche unmittelbare und mittelbare Auswirkungen...

Installations covered by the European Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) can use credits from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to cover a share of their emissions. The CDM credits are generated by low-carbon projects in developing countries that require the CDM support to become financially...

This paper offers an overview of the mandate of the European Central Bank (ECB), as defined by its objectives, the instruments available to achieve them and the constitutional framework that the ECB shall observe in pursuing them. The objectives include the primary objective of maintaining price...

Dieses Gutachten im Auftrag des Freistaats Bayern basiert auf einem Fragenkatalog des Bayerischen Landtags zu Entwicklungen und Handlungsoptionen auf dem landwirtschaftlichen Bodenmarkt in Bayern. Die Fragen werden aus agrarökonomischer und rechtswissenschaftlicher Perspektive beantwortet. Eine...

This occasional paper describes how the financial stability and macroprudential policy functions are organised at the ECB. Financial stability has been a key policy function of the ECB since its inception. Macroprudential policy tasks were later conferred on the ECB by the Single Supervisory...

The European Union is aiming to foster digital transformation in all sectors by 2030. It has pioneered cross-sectoral legislation on artificial intelligence, cloud computing services and crypto-assets for this purpose. Yet compared with the work done on ESG, the prospective banking regulation...