05 Dec, 2023 UK government seeks to supercharge battery investment By Rebecca Fenning Sanjana Canumalla Emma Franck-Gwinnell The UK’s first ever Battery Strategy (the Strategy), published last week, sets out the Government’s positive commitment to development in...
08 Nov, 2023 Unlocking a “transport revolution”: UK Automated Vehicles Bill announced in King’s Speech By James Roberts Georgina Bayly In the King’s Speech on Tuesday, King Charles announced on behalf of the UK Government that “Ministers will introduce new legal...
17 Oct, 2023 UK Department for Transport proposes extensions to GB vehicle type approval regime By James Roberts James Raeside Georgina Bayly In a consultation published last week, the UK Department for Transport (DfT) is seeking limited views on a proposed extension to the GB...
11 Apr, 2023 UK Government consults on updates to regulation of vehicles’ CO2 emissions allowances By James Roberts Georgina Bayly Emma Franck-Gwinnell On 30 March 2023, the UK Government launched a consultation on a new framework for regulating CO2 emissions of cars and vans made...
04 Apr, 2023 UK government consults on Zero Emission Vehicle mandate By James Roberts Emma Franck-Gwinnell Georgina Bayly On 30 March 2023, the UK Government announced a range of new and updated energy security and net zero transition policies through its...
13 Dec, 2022 The European Commission's proposal for Euro 7 emission standards: What's new for electric vehicles? By James Raeside James Smith On 10 November 2022, the European Commission published its much-anticipated proposal for the new Euro 7 emissions standards. For the...
02 Nov, 2022 UK Government clarifies detail on new vehicle type approval regime: changes parked for now By James Roberts James Raeside The UK Government has recognised the broad consensus across the automotive sector that more time is required to prepare for the UK’s new...
07 Jun, 2022 First Hearing in Climate-Related Lawsuits Against German Car Manufacturers By Jan Henning Buschfeld Sarah Hillebrand In autumn 2021, several individuals and representatives of the NGOs Deutsche Umwelthilfe and Greenpeace filed lawsuits at various German...
13 May, 2022 New Code, more shows: UK Government proposes updates to the Highway Code By Xavier Chitnavis James Roberts The UK Government recently published the outcome of its April 2021 consultation concerning ‘Rules on the safe use of automated vehicles’....
17 Feb, 2021 Product liability: German court ruling sets further standards for the interpretation of defect and longstop By Astrid Seehafer Andrew Austin Marcel Kaufmann It is no secret that the terms used in the EU Product Liability Directive 85/374/EEC (PLD) leave a lot of room for interpretation. A...
01 Apr, 2020 German automotive sector: liability implications of designating a product safety representative By Astrid Seehafer Daniel Travers Stefanie Spancken-Monz Lisa Ottinger Nils Schlenkhoff Niklas Eckert +3 more... Show less In the automotive sector, OEMs are increasingly requesting their suppliers to designate so-called Product Safety Representatives in order...
08 Oct, 2019 Straight to the source: UK/US cooperation on seizing electronic data By Ali Kirby-Harris Peter Jaffe On 3 October, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel along with US Attorney General William P. Barr signed the first UK-US Bilateral Data Access...