Apr 15, 2024 Not Strict Enough: California Proposes Further Amendments to Automatic Renewal Law By Paavana Kumar Jeremy Merkel Operating a subscription-based company in 2024 continues to be a constantly moving target of compliance. California, which already had...
Mar 27, 2024 CMA (finally!) resolves investigation into fashion retailers, issues open letter to fashion industry By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor Way back in July 2022, the CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) put fashion retailers under its very own spotlight by launching...
Mar 29, 2023 From Record Clubs to Retail Subscriptions: FTC Proposes Significant Expansion of Negative Option Rule By Paavana Kumar Alexa Meera Singh Ashley Haripal Negative option offers – such as prenotification plans, continuity programs, automatic renewals and free-to-pay conversions – allow a...
Nov 15, 2022 Supermarkets Fight for an Inch in Advertising By Ricardo Henriques Pedro Hemsworth The Ethics Juri (EJ) of the Advertising Self-Regulation Association (Auto-Regulação Publicitária) has decided yet again about comparative...
Sep 14, 2022 Retailers in Slovakia beware: An additional obligation to publish prices in relation to special offers is on the way By Peter Marciš Although the implementation of the EU Directive 2019/2161 has been delayed in Slovakia, we already know what to expect from it. New...
Jul 29, 2022 Sustainable fashion - UK's CMA publishes update on its Green Claims investigations By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor We have known since last year that the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) will be investigating environmental claims (so called 'green...
Jan 07, 2022 Advertising a Longer Guarantee Period? Even if Not Misleading, Still May Violate the Law By Violetta Kunze Vladislav Antonov A new Law for the provision of digital content and digital services and for the sale of goods (the "Law") entered into force on 1st...
Nov 02, 2021 Don't Let Your Supply Chain Issues Cause Advertising Problems By Jeff Greenbaum As supply chain issues continue to impact the availability of products, there are serious concerns that this problem is only going to get...
Sep 22, 2021 FREE Online Training Session: New Green Claims Code - what YOU need to know By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor This week, the CMA launched its eagerly anticipated Green Claims Code. The new Code comes ahead of a clampdown by the CMA on misleading...
Sep 04, 2019 A Day Late and $1.2M Short: NY AG Fines Dollar Store Chains for Selling Expired Medicines and Obsolete Motor Oil, Violating Bottle Deposit Law By Len Gordon