On March 8, 2021, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) issued its new Rules of Procedure. What follows are some of its most significant provisions: The rules confirm the ANPD’S structure as outlined in Brazilian Data Protection Law (Law # 13,709 of 2018 or LGPD): (i) a Board of Directors (Conselho Diretor or BoD) and […]
On March 04, 2021, Brazil deposited at the United Nations a letter ratifying the Nagoya Protocol (Protocol) on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), signed by the Chief of the Executive Branch, Jair Bolsonaro. The Brazilian Senate had […]
On February 22, 2021, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) issued new personal data breach reporting guidelines. The guidelines establish rules on (i) the measures that should be taken when a personal data breach has been identified, (ii) the information that needs to be communicated to the ANPD, (iii) the situations in which the data […]
On International Data Protection Day, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published its regulatory agenda for 2021-2022. On January 28, 2021, a date celebrated as International Data Protection Day, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published its regulatory agenda for the next 24 months. This agenda includes initiatives to establish complementary regulations regarding the following […]
(per BRPTO’s gazette of December 29, 2020) As indicated in our client alert from December 29, 2020, the BRPTO published Ordinance #412/2020, which includes further rules on the preliminary office action program, a component of the BRPTO’s Plan to Combat Patent Backlog. Ordinance #412/2020 alters the so-called “preliminary Office Action program” related to examining […]
