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The Danish Data Protection Agency and other European data protection agencies currently have a strong focus on whether companies’ cookie solutions comply with the rules in the GDPR. It includes e.g. solutions within Google Analytics and IAB’s standard solution for cookies and advertisements, Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF), where there are many indications that Danish companies may prepare for alternative solutions.

The Government and several political parties have agreed on a new model for the working environment rules that apply to working from home.

The European Commission has made a proposal for a new directive to ensure that platform workers have access to the workers’ rights and social benefits that workers are entitled to. In addition, the directive must ensure the platform’s effective exploitation of the economic potential of the internal market.

On 25 November 2021, the Danish Parliament adopted several changes to the Marketing Law, which involves that the level of fines for certain violations of the Marketing Law will significantly increase from 1 January 2022. At the same time, stricter rules have been introduced for marketing aimed at children and young people. Get an overview of the most important changes.

The number of people hospitalized due to COVID-19 no longer increases at the same pace as infection rates. Therefore, the Government has decided that COVID-19 from 1 February 2022 should no longer be categorized as a socially critical disease. However, it is still possible to use certain compensation schemes.

It is a great pleasure that Attorney Sebastian Rungby and Attorney Torsten Hylleberg will both take up the roles as partners in Lund Elmer Sandager with retroactive effect from 1 January 2022.

The corona pandemic has shown us how quickly and radically the world can change, and how incredibly important it is that companies can effectively adapt to new situations. It places great demands on the legal contracts, which must provide the necessary flexibility to the parties when new opportunities and risks arise.

We are experiencing more cases of NemID fraud in connection with raising loans. The methods are constantly evolving, and the scammers are becoming more cunning. It places great demands on companies, customers, and lenders if they are to avoid being scammed.

The Ministry of Finance states in a press release issued on 30 October 2021, that the rules for publishing management members’ salary information will be changed.

On 20 December 2021, the Government and the social partners entered into a new three-party agreement extending the current compensation scheme. The agreement has been made based on the tightened and extended restrictions that apply until and including 31 January 2022 and are intended to help the companies that suffer the most.

Fable Media is a global, leading affiliate business in online and mobile gambling with headquarters in Copenhagen. Future Gaming Group International is a company listed on the Spotlight Stock Market in Sweden that invests in and develops services within lead generation – also called affiliate marketing or performance-based marketing.

The Government and the social partners have entered into a three-party agreement on the extension of the temporary work-sharing scheme and the scheme for pay compensation for forcibly closed companies as a result of Covid-19. In addition, companies that have been afflicted by the corona crisis can now be compensated again.