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Essential Corporate News – Week ending 8 November 2024
On 6 November 2024, the Home Office published guidance under section 204 Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA).
In the fifteenth edition of Cultivate we focus on the growing field of Sustainable Agriculture.
Technological innovation continues to play a pivotal role in reshaping all parts of the food and agribusiness value chain – from the land we use for production, to the food processing methods and safety measures. In this issue of Cultivate we focus on how these new technologies are permitting us to increase food production in sustainable ways and what some of the emerging legal considerations are, including examining intellectual property protection challenges.
We explore a breakthrough development by a Dutch company which allows for production on saline lands previously thought to be too inhospitable to grow food, genomic innovation in livestock breeding in Australia and Canada leading to economic benefits in the billions of dollars and the use of artificial intelligence to detect diseases in crops.
One of the challenges of rapid deployment of technology in agriculture is legislators and the regulators are struggling to keep pace. On the regulatory side, we share a proposal from a Dutch academic for reforms of the EU common agricultural policy, recent guidance relating to the food safety regulations in the United States and lessons learned from the tobacco sector as Canada adopts a new regulatory regime for cannabis.
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Refocusing the application of the UK Takeover Code
On 6 November 2024, the UK Takeover Panel (Panel) published response statement RS 2024/1 - Companies to which the Takeover Code applies (Response Statement) setting out final rule changes that will result in a refocusing and significant narrowing of the types of companies subject to the UK Takeover Code (Code). This follows on from the Panel’s previous consultation on this topic in April 2024.
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Draft Guidelines on abusive exclusionary conduct – Striking a balance between effective enforcement and economic analysis
On 01 August 2024, the European Commission (EC) launched a public consultation on the draft text of the Guidelines on the application of Article 102 TFEU to abusive exclusionary conduct by dominant undertakings (the draft Guidelines).
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