To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a regulatory update. Our regulatory agenda for December covers EU developments, including the imminent end of the Brexit transition period, ongoing acts of parliament, the latest COVID-19 government guidance and more.

What’s in the regulatory agenda?

• What’s new this month?
• EU developments affecting policy and compliance
• Recent Acts of Parliament affecting policy and compliance
• Bills before Parliament
• Secondary legislation
• Open and closed consultations
• Regulations and initiatives on the horizon

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To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a regulatory update. Our regulatory agenda for September covers the latest COVID-19 government guidance, EU developments, acts of Parliament, bills before Parliament, open consultations and more.

What’s new this month?

New rules from the EU on the terms and conditions for online platforms such as Amazon, eBay and Google have been adopted, and will also apply in the UK. Particularly beneficial to SME’s, the new rules mean contracts between sellers and the platform must be clear and intelligible and sets out various standards for contracts including information on ranking, relisting and data access.

Although not legislation, the ICO has released a new statutory code aimed at organisations designing online or app-based tools which use or analyse the data of under-18s. The Age Appropriate Design Code has a 12-month transition period but applies to all companies offering services to UK users.

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To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a regulatory update. Our regulatory agenda for August covers the latest COVID-19 government guidance, EU developments, acts of Parliament, bills before Parliament, open consultations and more.

What’s new this month?

The UK continues to take steps to re-open the economy following from lockdown in the first half of the year. The government is taking steps to encourage companies to get back to the office and people back into shops, bars and restaurants, helped in part by the Business and Planning Act which eased rules on the use of outdoor spaces in England, for example.

The much-delayed IR35 passed with the Finance Act The new rules – which will shift responsibility for deciding how contactors should be taxed onto the employing businesses – will now come into force APRIL 2021.

New parents will get a boost. Following a consultation, the government is proposing to extend the redundancy protection period to six months once a new mother has returned to work and extend those protections to those taking adoption leave. Former Women and Equalities Minister Maria Miller has moved a private members’ bill to the same effect.

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To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a regulatory update. Since our last update in June, the government has released further information on its COVID-19 support schemes.

This edition of our regulatory agenda provides 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. These include Acts of Parliament relating to COVID-19, DAC6 implementation, IR35, California Consumer Privacy Act, sanctions, gender pay gap reporting and more.

This edition of the regulatory agenda covers the following:

• COVID-19 update – back to work guidance and government support schemes
• EU developments
• Bills before Parliament
• Upcoming legislation
• Current open consultations
• Closed consultations
• Key points of the Queen’s speech that are relevant to compliance
• Bills, Directive and government initiative on the horizon

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To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a regulatory update. Since our last update in May, the government has released further guidance on getting back to work safely as and when each industry begins its efforts to get back to normal. Our regulatory agenda is now available as a podcast as well as a downloadable guide. You can listen to the latest episode here or find it on any podcast provider.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published back to work guidance to support businesses once an ease in lockdown measures is announced. Some service providers and businesses in the food and hospitality industries are trialing measures to return to work, such as offering delivery services. Some other measures include staggered shift patterns, regular screening protocols and the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE).

This edition of our regulatory agenda provides 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. These include Acts of Parliament relating to COVID-19.

This edition of the regulatory agenda covers the following:

• COVID-19 update – back to work guidance and government support schemes
• EU developments
• Bills before Parliament
• Upcoming legislation
• Current open consultations
• Closed consultations
• Key points of the Queen’s speech that are relevant to compliance

Download Regulatory Agenda

To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a regulatory update. Since our last update in February, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the majority of the world and changed the way we work.

This special edition of our 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. These include Acts of Parliament relating to COVID-19.

This edition of the regulatory agenda will cover the following:

• Details of the government’s back-to-work initiatives
• EU developments
• Bills before Parliament
• Upcoming legislation
• Current open consultations
• Closed consultations
• Key points of the Queen’s speech that are relevant to compliance
• An analysis of the manifesto commitments of the last election

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To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a short regulatory update. Since our last update in January, the UK left the EU, with certain legislation coming into effect. This includes the GDPR we have become familiar with disappearing from the statute book and the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 coming into effect.

This 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 includes legislative and government action on data protection, whistleblowing, modern slavery, DAC6, tax evasion, legal services, IR35 and more.

This edition of the regulatory agenda will cover the following:

• EU developments
• Bills before Parliament
• Upcoming legislation
• Current open consultations
• Closed consultations
• Key points of the Queen’s speech that are relevant to compliance
• An analysis of the manifesto commitments of the last election

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To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a short regulatory update. Since our last update in November 2019, Boris Johnson won the 12 December election with a majority of 80 seats in the House of Commons. This means the Prime Minister, following countless delays, looks set to finally fulfil his promise to “Get Brexit Done”. The UK will leave the EU on 31 January 2020.

This 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. This regulatory agenda includes the current and upcoming legislation that may be affected by Brexit.

This edition of the regulatory agenda will cover the following:

• EU developments
• Bills before Parliament
• Upcoming legislation
  
• Current open consultations
• Closed consultations
• Key points of the Queen’s speech that are relevant to compliance.
• An analysis of the manifesto commitments of the last election

You can download this special edition of the regulatory agenda here.

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.