Practices Area: Technology

    In an effort to support innovation and create a more attractive environment for the startup eco-system in Greece, Law 4712/2020 introduces fiscal incentives for R&D and investments in the early stages of start-ups.     R&D tax incentives As of September 1, 2020, the tax deduction increment for R&D related expenses, including depreciation… Continue reading Incentives for R&D and investments in start-ups

    Ahead of the highly anticipated decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in data protection, on Thursday, July 16th, this is a brief summary of where we stand so far:   Schrems I In 2013 Mr. Maximilian Schrems, objected to his personal data being sent by Facebook Ireland to servers… Continue reading Schrems II. The saga continues.

    Online platforms offering intermediation services (e.g. online marketplaces, app stores and search engines) have changed the typical structure of transactions concluded in a digital environment from bilateral to a triangle and have acquired an enormous degree of economic power and cultural influence. In the EU only, out of 27 start-ups that reached unicorn… Continue reading Regulation on platform-to-business relations

    Digital platforms providing intermediation services are becoming increasingly popular and disruptive in a variety of industries. Those services may qualify merely as “information society services”, while in other occasions, they are regarded as ancillary to an overall service coming under a different legal classification, triggering the implementation of different set of rules.  … Continue reading Uber vs Airbnb: key takeaways from ECJ’s case law

    Tensions between the PSD II and the GDPR are expected to mount as financial entities seek to comply with overlapping provisions in the two pieces of legislation. In the case at hand, the Court examined the interaction between provisions aiming at similar results, i.e. the right of access to personal information.   Merits… Continue reading Interplay of the PSD II and the GDPR

    What is blockchain? Blockchain is, in essence, a new architecture of building data bases, where data is stored in blocks in a way that a continuous and interconnected chain of data is created. Even the slightest change in data stored in previous blocks cannot be made without changing data in following blocks. This… Continue reading Blockchain basics

    Ι. Εισαγωγή   Η πρόσφατη εκρηκτική απήχηση των λεγόμενων «κρυπτονομισμάτων» έφερε στο προσκήνιο, μεταξύ άλλων, την τεχνολογία στην οποία αυτά βασίζονται, και συγκεκριμένα την τεχνολογία blockchain ή, κατά ευθεία, αλλά όχι δόκιμη, μετάφραση στα ελληνικά, τεχνολογία «αλυσίδας μπλοκ». Παρότι, αρχικά τουλάχιστον, η τεχνολογία αυτή ταυτίστηκε με τα νέα αυτά μέσα πληρωμών (ή συναλλαγών… Continue reading Η τεχνολογία Blockchain, οι εφαρμογές της και οι νομικές πτυχές της