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Generative AI: A global guide to key IP considerations
Artificial intelligence (AI) raises many intellectual property (IP) issues.
United Kingdom | Publication | October 2023
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published an update to its guidance on Regulated Apportionment Arrangements (RAAs), replacing its earlier guidance published in 2010 and its subsequent 2017 ‘quick guide’.
An RAA enables an employer facing inevitable insolvency to apportion its liabilities under a defined benefit scheme to another participating employer(s) and cease participation in the scheme, which will then enter the Pension Protection Fund (PPF). There are a number of regulatory requirements to be met including TPR approval and the PPF must not object to it.
The updated TPR guidance, while mostly aligned with TPR’s current approach, is more detailed than earlier guidance and places a stronger focus on the criteria needed for RAA approval.
TPR has emphasised:
The guidance sets out the following principles that will need to be satisfied and how this can be evidenced:
The guidance also states that:
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Artificial intelligence (AI) raises many intellectual property (IP) issues.
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The UK remains a world leader in offshore wind, accounting for roughly 20 percent of global offshore wind capacity, with 11.3 GW operational. It is forecast that installed capacity will rise to 19.5 GW by mid 2020s.
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On 21 May 2024, the European Council (or Council) adopted the so-called ‘Hydrogen and decarbonised gas market package’ (the Gas Package). The package contains a recast of the 715/2009 gas regulation (Gas Regulation) and a recast of the 2009/73 gas directive (Gas Directive) aimed at reforming the existing EU regulatory framework to support the deployment of renewable and low-carbon gases, in particular hydrogen. As such, it represents a major development in the EU gas market.
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