This month’s update from Marija Nonkovic’s on key tech law developments for the month ahead:
| Date | Description | Further Information |
| 3 October 2024 | New deadline for DSIT consultation on ICO data protection fee uplift | Link to announcement here Link to consultation here |
| 11 October 2024 | ICO annual Data Protection Practitioner’s Conferences | Link to registration here |
| 18 October 2024 | Deadline for EU member states to implement the NIS 2 Directive | Link to Directive here |
In addition, here are some developments from August 2024 which weren’t captured in the last month’s update.
| Date | Description | Further Information |
| 5 September 2024 | Lord Chancellor signed non-binding international treaty on AI | Link to press release here |
| 6 September 2024 | European Commission published FAQs on the Data Act | Link to press release here |
| 9 September 2024 | New Private Member’s Bill on AI in the public sector introduced to the House of Lords (Lord Clement-Jones) | Link to Bill here |
| 10 September 2024 | ICO and NCA signed MOU for further collaboration on cyber security | Link to press release here |
| 10 September 2024 | European Commission hosted first official meeting of the AI Board | Link to press release here |
| 10 September 2024 | The Court of Justice of the European Union upheld the European Commission 2.4 billion fine on Google for abusing its dominant position for preferring its own shopping service | Link to press release here |
| 11 September 2024 | UK, US and Australia signed supply chain resilience pact | Link to press release here |
| 11 September 2024 | European Commission launched consultation on new EU standard contractual clauses (‘SCCs’) | Link to press release here |
| 11 September 2024 | Property (Digital Assets etc) bill was introduced into UK Parliament | Link to press release here |
| 12 September 2024 | UK government announced that data centres powering the economy will be designated as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) alongside energy and water systems | Link to press release here |
| 18 September 2024 | Deadline for responses to ICO’s consultation on allocating controllership across the generative AI supply chain | Link to consultation here |
| 18 September 2024 | Deadline for European Commission’s multi-stakeholder consultation on trustworthy general-purpose AI models under the AI Act | Link to consultation here |
| 19 September 2024 | European Commission published a policy brief on competition in generative AI and virtual worlds | Link to policy brief here |
| 19 September 2024 | Belgian DPA published guidelines on the interplay between GDPR and EU AI Act in the context of AI system development | Link to the guidance here |
| 25 September 2025 | European Commission announced that a hundred companies signed EU AI Pact | Link to press release hereLink to list of signatories here |
| 27 September 2024 | Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta 91 million euros ($101.5 million) for inadvertently storing some users’ passwords without protection or encryption | Link to press release here |
| 25 September 2024 | Bank of England announced establishment of the Artificial Intelligence | Link to announcement here |
