On 5 February 2024, the EU Council and the EU Parliament agreed on a provisional text for the ESG Ratings Regulation (the Regulation). Under the Regulation, in-scope EU providers of ESG ratings... Read more »
On February 6, 2024, the UK government published a response to the consultation on its AI Regulation White Paper, which the UK government originally published in March 2023. The White Paper set forth the... Read more »
On 19 December, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its final report setting out draft Regulatory Technical Standards under the amended European Long-Term Investment Funds Regulation. KEY POINTS Minimum Holding Period... Read more »
Quick Hits On December 14, 2023, the Standards Board adopted an emergency regulation to better protect workers from occupational exposures to respirable crystalline silica, especially in the engineered stone fabrication industry. The... Read more »
The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board held its monthly meeting on December 14, 2023. At the meeting, the Standards Board unanimously adopted an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to address the... Read more »
The European Union Court of Justice ruled Thursday that a 2021 Austrian law regulating communications platforms cannot be binding on companies based in a different country. The Supreme Administrative Court of the... Read more »
As heat records continue to be broken around the country, mine operators are having to direct more time and attention to protecting their personnel from the dangers of heat stress. Source link... Read more »
(Image via Getty) The Data Provenance Institute, a research project organized by “machine-learning engineers and legal experts,” has released a report detailing how open source data sets used to train large language... Read more »
A congressional committee spearheaded by Chuck Schumer will soon begin a series of “A.I. Insight Forums” with tech industry leaders, including Elon Musk of Tesla, Sundar Pichai of Google, Sam Altman of... Read more »
Executive Summary: On August 4, 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a final rule amending the 2020 pre-enforcement regulations colloquially referred to as the “PDN... Read more »