The implications of Brexit feature heavily in July’s Regulatory Agenda
To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a short regulatory update. Since our last update in June, the UK has gained a new Prime Minister. Boris Johnson has pledged to ensure the UK leaves the European Union by 31 October 2019.
The Regulatory Agenda is designed to provide an overview of regulatory changes or new regulations recently passed, proposed, or on the agenda which are relevant to key compliance areas of VinciWorks’ clients in the UK. It is divided by the main sources of UK policy and does not include provisions which have been dropped.
Main topics from the regulatory agenda:
EU developments
Acts of Parliament
Bills before Parliament
Draft Bills
Secondary legislation
Consultations – Open
Consultations – Closed
Queen’s speech
On the horizon
Manifesto commitments
You can download the regulatory agenda for July by clicking here.
Keeping up with new regulations can be very challenging and time-consuming. Regulators expect companies to identify and react to all regulations that have an impact on their firms. This can be very tricky, but VinciWorks has your back.
To help you stay ahead of the curve, VinciWorks has published a regulatory agenda with an overview of recent changes and a regulatory horizon with topics on the agenda.
The agenda covers
E.U. Developments
Acts of Parliament
Consultations
Bills before Parliament
Manifesto Commitments
We have created this resource to help break down new and emerging regulations to help you and your company comply with the ever-changing laws. Feel free to Regulatory agenda for June 2019 to ensure you are up to date on the latest information on UK regulations.
Consistent polls are showing that the Labour Party will be in for a 1997-style landslide come the next British general election, expected sometime in 2024. In the run up to the election, the Labour Party have been setting out their agenda for government. In this blog, we examine the likely regulatory priorities for government, and what this could mean for compliance.
How two recent news stories portray companies’ complicated relationship with AI’s evolving technology
It’s hard to predict what lies in artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) regulatory future for the simple reason that AI’s technology is constantly evolving. This means its issues, of bias or copyright or lack of transparency, to name a few will continue to shape the regulatory agenda for many years to come.
Two news stories highlight the complex relationship companies have with AI and the often circuitous path they will have to take to achieve some sort of control over this nearly unmanageable technology.
From new ESG regulations to a crackdown on bribery, rapid fluctuations in crypto currency, changes to the regulated sector and the ongoing conflict in Europe demanding a laser-like focus on the supply chain, 2023 looks set to demand even more from compliance professionals.
We have created an in-depth guide to everything compliance in 2023. The guide covers the top ten items you can expect to see in your regulatory inbox, with tips on next steps.
Despite the ongoing pandemic, compliance departments can still enter the new year with a sense, if not an outline, of what should be on their agenda in 2022. Preparing for rapid, sudden changes in 2022, from new Covid-19 variants to supply chain problems or catastrophic climate events, should still be high on every compliance officer’s agenda. But that doesn’t mean planning for the expected should take a back seat.
In this webinar, our Director of Best Practice Gary Yantin and Director of Learning and Content Nick Henderson looked at the regulatory and compliance horizon for the upcoming year.
They discussed the top items you can expect to see in your regulatory inbox. Change might be a constant in this day and age, but it doesn’t have to be unexpected, unplanned, or catch you unprepared.
The webinar covered:
What will happen with the supply chain crisis
Changes to UK GDPR and a new privacy shield
Sarbanes-Oxley financial regulation is coming to the UK
Nick Henderson is Director of Learning and Content at VinciWorks and has played an important role in developing VinciWorks’ most interactive and customisable courses covering topics such as anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, GDPR, diversity, mental health, health and safety and more. Nick is a policy expert with a background in public, voluntary and private sectors and has expert-level knowledge across a wide range of areas.
As Director of Best Practice at VinciWorks, Gary Yantin works with professional service firms of all sizes to provide the best compliance learning experience for their staff. He was previously an in-house lawyer and a solicitor in private practice. Gary has hosted many webinars and workshops for VinciWorks on a wide range of risk and compliance topics including GDPR and the SRA’s new approach to ongoing learning.
Despite the ongoing pandemic, compliance departments can still enter the new year with a sense, if not an outline, of what should be on their agenda in 2022. Preparing for rapid, sudden changes in 2022, from new Covid-19 variants to supply chain problems or catastrophic climate events, should still be high on every compliance officer’s agenda. But that doesn’t mean planning for the expected should take a back seat.
In this new guide, we discuss the top ten items you should look out for in your regulatory inbox next year. The topics to watch out for are:
Shortages in the supply chain
ESG reporting hits its stride
Health and safety working practices
Vaccine mandates grow
Mental health at home and at work
UK GDPR and a new privacy shield?
Online harms and cyber security
Sarbanes-Oxley is coming to the UK
DAC6 and mandatory disclosure rules
More cryptocurrency regulation
Join us for our webinar on 12 January 2022 where we’ll discuss these compliance issues in more detail. You can register for that webinar here.
Is 2020 over? Well, not quite. While the global roll out of the coronavirus vaccine gathers pace, a slow return to something akin to normal life is likely to stretch into spring or summer 2021 at least. The volatility of the economic situation and the unpredictability of the recovery will cloud the regulatory agenda for some time as businesses grapple with the impact of a very long year that won’t necessarily end on 31 December. But there are a number of trends and milestones to mark on your calendar for 2021.
Brexit
DAC6
The Biden Administration
Scottish elections
Posted Workers Directive
ePrivacy Directive
Global privacy laws
Cyber security
Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act
Financial services
Banking
Long Covid
Racism
IR35
Cryptocurrency
We have created an in-depth guide to everything compliance in 2021. The guide gives an overview of each topic and the practical applications of new regulations.
The new decade is bringing new considerations for diversity inclusion in the workplace. The Equality Act is now 10 years old, and while there aren’t any substantive legislative updates, other changes in the law in the last decade could mean it’s time for a refresh of your equality-related policies and procedures.
Mixed-sex civil partnerships
Civil partnerships were invented in 2004 as a way to give same-sex couples legal protections broadly similar to marriage, albeit with a few differences. At that time marriage was illegal for same-sex couples across the UK. In 2014, the same-sex marriage ban was lifted in England and Wales, as well as in Scotland, although it remained in force in Northern Ireland.
This created inequality in the law, as civil partnerships had been created exclusively for same-sex couples, who then had the option to choose either a civil partnership or a marriage, while mixed-sex couples could only choose a marriage.
The legal differences between the two institutions include how they are formed and their grounds for dissolution, and campaigners took the case to the Supreme Court who agreed that civil partnerships should also be available to mixed-sex couples.
While the European Union forges ahead with proposals to strictly regulate the use of Artificial Intelligence, the UK has opted for a more ‘wait-and-see’ approach. But that looks set to change after the next election – which must be held before January 2025.
