This month’s update from Marija Nonkovic’s on key tech law developments for the month ahead:
| Date | Description | Further Information |
| 1 January 2025 | CMA guidance on digital markets competition regime comes into force | Link to Guidance here |
| 1 January 2025 | The digital markets and competition law sections of DMCC Act come into force through The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (Commencement No. 1 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2024 | Link to Regulations here |
| 1 January 2025 | Critical Third Parties Regime comes into force | Link to CTP Regime here |
| 17 January 2025 | The Online Safety Act 2023 (Commencement No 4) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/1333) come into force | Link to Regulations here |
| 17 January 2025 | DORA starts to apply | Link to Regulation text here |
| 21 January 2024 | Report Stage (1/2) for Data (Use and Access) Bill | Link to Parliament page here |
| 28 January 2024 | Report Stage (2/2) for Data (Use and Access) Bill | Link to Parliament page here |
| 27 January 2025 | Deadline for responses to EDPB consultation on guidelines on Article 48 GDPR | Link to Consultation here |
| 29 January 2025 | Deadline for responses to DSIT consultation on AI management self-assessment tool | Link to Consultation here |
| 31 January 2025 | Deadline for ICO consultation on revised approach to public sector regulation | Link to Consultation here |
In addition, here are some developments from December 2024 which weren’t captured in the last month’s update.
| Date | Description | Further Information |
| 2 December 2024 | Council of the EU formally adopted the Cyber Solidarity Act and Cybersecurity Act | Link to press release here |
| 3 December 2024 | National Cyber Security Centre published its annual report | Link to annual report here |
| 3 December 2024 | EDPB published draft guidelines on Art.48 GDPR about data transfers to third country authorities | Link to Guidelines here |
| 3 December 2024 | ENISA published its first report on the state of cybersecurity in the EU in accordance with Article 18 of the NIS 2 Directive | Link to Report here |
| 10 December 2024 | ICO published report on outcome of generative AI consultation series | Link to Report here |
| 10 December 2024 | Online Safety Act 2023 (Commencement No 4) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/1333) (Regulations) were made | Link to Regulations here |
| 11 December 2024 | Deadline for European AI Office consultation on guidelines relating to EU AI Act | Link to Consultation here |
| 13 December 2024 | Public Authority Algorithmic and Automated Decision-Making Private Members’ Bill had its second reading in the House of Lords | Link to Bill here |
| 17 December 2024 | DSIT published consultation on proposals to give creative industries and AI developers clarity over copyright laws | Link to press release hereLink to Consultation here |
| 17 December 2024 | Irish DPC fined Meta €251 Million | Link to press release here |
| 17 December 2024 | The UK government published consultation on using copyright material to train AI models | Link to Consultation here |
| 17 December 2024 | EDPB adopted Opinion on the use of personal data for the development and deployment of AI models | Link to Opinion here |
| 19 December 2024 | CMA and ICO signed MoU in relation to Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 | Link to MoU here |
| 20 December 2024 | Online Safety Act 2023 (Commencement No 4) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/1333) were published | Link to Regulations here |
| 20 December 2024 | Ofcom published first-edition codes of practice and guidance on tackling illegal harms | Link to codes here |
