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Protection of Whistleblowers in Lithuania: Most Common Mistakes in Practice and What Should be Remembered

The Law on the Protection of Whistleblowers, which establishes the mechanism for protection of the...

Topics Financial Institutions Shall Raise Awarness Of

Following the legal requirements as well as an analysis of recent practice and focus of...

ECOVIS ProventusLaw appoints A. Viederytė as the Head of AML Group

ECOVIS ProventusLaw is happy to announce that Austėja Viederytė was promoted to the head of...

Changes await the Lithuanian crypto market from November 2022

Lithuania strengthens the supervision of the cryptocurrency sector. From November 2022, the country will ban...

E-Signature platforms and GDPR: the often-overlooked issue of data protection compliance

As more and more people have been utilizing electronic tools for their daily work, signing...

Employment in Lithuania has become easier for foreigners

From the 1st of August, amendments to the Republic of Lithuania Law on the Legal...

The Bank of Lithuania outlined key deficiencies of sanctions-related control measures for financial market participants

On the 21st of July, the Bank of Lithuania published a report on the implementation...

Overview of the upcoming amendments to the Labour Code

ECOVIS Proventuslaw provides an overview of the most important amendments to the Labour Code of...

Italian DPA fines healthcare facility and their service provider due to whistle-blowing app violations

In April 2022, the Italian data protection authority (hereinafter – Italian DPA) fined a healthcare...

Benefits will be granted to highly qualified employees and their employers in Lithuania

Amendments to the Law on Employment relating to one-time compensations to highly qualified employees from...

Why Adverse Media Screening Is Important for Businesses and how is it performed?

Adverse media screening is fast becoming a crucial element of an organisation’s customer due diligence...

French data protection authority released FAQ on the use of Google Analytics

On 7 June 2022, French data protection authority (CNIL) released answers to frequently asked questions...

Twitter to pay $150m fine for using private user data to serve ads

Less than two years after being fined for breaking GDPR data privacy rules, Federal Trade...

New Rules on Consumer Rights Apply in the EU the Omnibus Directive

On 28 th May 2022 the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council...

Blockchain and the GDPR: How GDPR compliant Blockchain can create trustworthiness

There is an opinion that blockchain technology and GDPR are fundamentally incompatible because of decentralized...