Oct 2019

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Ireland's Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has been considering for some time as to whether to introduce a simplified merger notification procedure.

Oct 2019

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Three days before the UK was due to leave the EU on 31 October 2019, the European Council agreed to give the UK a further extension on its notice period to leave the EU. 

Oct 2019

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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recently issued 3 firms with fines totalling more than £36m for breaking competition law in supplying certain concrete drainage products for building projects

Oct 2019

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In a shrewd move by the EU, Michel Barnier (the European Commission's Chief Brexit Negotiator) has been appointed to lead the new European Commission "taskforce". He will handle, among other issues, the second phase of the talks between the EU and the UK. 

Oct 2019

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Some approaching compliance deadlines and Central Bank speeches

Oct 2019

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ESA consultation on KIDs for PRIIPs; ESMA Update on Brexit; Use of derivatives by equity UCITS; ESMA TRV; Benchmarks; ESMA work programme; Joint Committee of ESAs work programme; AML/ CTF.

Oct 2019

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What is the Senior Executive Accountability Regime or SEAR? 

Oct 2019

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On 19 October 2019, after a day in the House of Commons which the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson must have found frustrating (because the Meaningful Vote on his Revised Withdrawal Agreement did not take place), the Prime Minister sent an unsigned letter to the President of the European Council.

Oct 2019

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The Irish Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure & Reform, Mr Paschal Donohoe, made his Budget speech to the Irish Parliament on Tuesday 8 October 2019 and published the Finance Bill 2019 on 17 October 2019.

Oct 2019

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Let us assume that the negotiators in the “tunnel” agree a deal, then what happens next?