Osborne Clarke LLP | Clareine Enderby
United Kingdom
Welcome to this week’s Knowledge Collection
Rules affecting the circular economy, nature markets and sustainable finance have all seen shifts. Our ESG Knowledge Update outlines the main changes mooted, which include revising sustainability criteria under the EU Taxonomy Regulation, amendments to international sustainability reporting standards on a sector-specific basis, new guidance on UK nature investment standards, and the introduction of eco-modulation (variable fees based on environmental performance) for packaging in the UK. Our Insight considers the impact of the UK financial regulator’s review of sustainability labels for funds, which suggests that it is moving beyond the policy-setting phase into active supervision of how these labels are used in practice. Next week, our Eating Compliance for Breakfast webinar discusses what businesses should know about the changing ESG landscape.
New data protection complaints obligations, provided for in the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, will come into force in June. The ICO has issued guidance to explain the new requirements to organisations. Our latest GDPR for HR edition considers the growing tactical use of data subject access requests (DSARs) in employment disputes and what the new law means for how employers should handle them, and our Insight looks at what pension trustees can do to prepare for their new obligations to respond to data protection complaints made directly to them.
Increasing regulatory restrictions on “forever chemicals” (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS) in both the EU and UK, and uncertainty over insurance coverage, mean that businesses face growing exposure. Our Insight explores what businesses can do to mitigate the growing litigation risk. Our webinar later this month considers new litigation risk from class actions more broadly.
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