There is a reason why the AI Act proposal is complemented with the reviewed Coordinated Plan on AI. You can’t just establish a legal framework on AI, cross your fingers and see it works. You need something more for the borderless stuff in the borderless world. The new Coordinated Plan with Member States is exactly […]
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For years it was debated about who’s liable where harm is caused by a machinery product and one has an AI-related component. Besides the Product Liability Directive itself, the Machinery Directive’s gaps and its underdevelopment in terms of AI have been leaving too much space for speculations. Now, as the EU comes up with its […]
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The European Commission has unveiled its view how AI is to be regulated. Just a year ago it was a white paper, and it is now a regulation to be. Which may well matter just as GDPR matters. Anyway, the EU is very serious about commandeering the approach to AI. While new rules on machinery […]
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The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine buried deep in its website a draft regulation loosely based on the form and substance of ownership structure. Why it is not the opening of draft regulation for public consultation and a bunch of other issues with regard to the long-awaited form and substance of ownership structure—is what this […]
Read more "Form and Substance of Ownership Structure. Who Benefits?"In the spring of 2017, the Golovan and Partners Law Firm representing the interests of the Isolation Foundation appealed to the Chairman of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Alexander Turchinov, requesting that several of […]
Read more "The first meeting on the suit of the СF “Isolation” to the head of the NSDC and the President of Ukraine will be held on February 6"The managing partner of “Golovan and partners” Law Firm Igor Golovan and the founder of the “Isolation” Foundation Lyubov Mikhailova held a press conference. The purpose of the event is to call for discussion between human rights organizations, media and business representatives on the situation with the Fund. Recall that in 2014 the Foundation’s building […]
Read more "Art Foundation “Isolation”: four years in exile"Thanks to the thorough and long work of the lawyers, the decision of the Zaporozhye region Court of Appeal canceled the decision of the investigating judge on the appointment of an unscheduled documentary check of the taxpayer and the refusal of the investigator to satisfy the petition. The motivated and fair decision of the court included, among […]
Read more "The lawyers of Golovan and Partners helped the company to establish fairness in the appointment of an unscheduled documentary check by the investigating judge"The European Court has transferred more than 12,000 cases of Ukrainians that relate to non-enforcement of decisions of Ukrainian courts to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe with a view to processing them in the framework of general measures specified in the pilot decision in the case Ivanov v. Ukraine. Among these […]
Read more "The European Court recognized the systemic problem of non-fulfillment of decisions of Ukrainian courts by the state"The advocates of Golovan and Partners Law Firm represent the interests of the company owned by a British investor when executing judicial decisions to collect from the budget the amounts of unrecovered value added tax and penalties for late refunding the tax. The State Treasury Service does not perform these judicial decisions motivating by the […]
Read more "The business ombudsman took the side of protecting the rights of the foreign investor"Commenting on the issue regarding the compliance of lawyers practicing law in the uncontrolled territories with ethics norms, Igor Golovan noted that on the basis that the lawyer should respect the Ukrainian Constitution, the laws of Ukraine and Ukrainian law at all, should assert respect for the profession of lawyers, there are certain doubts about […]
Read more "Managing Partner of Golovan and Partners Law Firm Igor Golovan, on the air of “Hromadske Radio” expressed his opinion about the lawyers in the territory of Certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions"