Digital Legal Update 01/2026

January 2026

Contents

Legislative news

Proposed legislation

  • Digital Omnibus
  • Implementation of the AI Act in the Czech Republic
  • Chat Control

GDPR Developments

  • New procedural regulation for cross-border data protection complaints
  • DMA and GDPR – Joint Guidelines of the EDPB and the Commission
  • EDPB Opinion on the Adequacy of the UK
  • Coordinated Enforcement Action 2026
  • EDPS Guidelines on AI Risk Management

European Case Law

  • Relationship between the GDPR and ePrivacy
  • Definition of Pseudonymisation 

Further Updates

  • Commission fines X for breach of the DSA
  • Commission: Possible anti-competitive conduct by SAP
  • Czech Competition Authority investigates possible abuse of dominance in online job advertising

The information contained in this bulletin is presented to the best of our knowledge and belief at the time of going to press. However, specific information related to the topics covered in this bulletin should be consulted before any decision is made. The information contained in this bulle-tin should not be construed as an exhaustive description of the relevant issues and any possible consequences, and should not be fully relied on in any decision-making processes or treated as a substitute for specific legal ad-vice, which would be relevant to particular circumstances. Neither Weinhold Legal, s.r.o. advokátní kancelář nor any individual lawyer listed as an author of the information accepts any responsibility for any detriment which may arise from reliance on information published here. Fur-thermore, it should be noted that there may be various legal opinions on some of the issues raised in this bulletin due to the ambiguity of the relevant provisions and an interpre-tation other than the one we give us may prevail in the future.

Automatic text and data mining, as well as reproduction or extraction of their content for the purposes of automated analysis from this information material, is prohibited pursuant to Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and Section 39c of Act No. 121/2000 Coll., the Copyright Act, without the prior express written consent of Weinhold Legal, s.r.o., law firm, unless, in any such use, the authorship of Weinhold Legal, s.r.o., law firm is expressly acknowledged together with a reference to the location of such text and data.

© 2025 Weinhold Legal

All rights reserved.

Get in touch
with us

Office Prague 

View on Map

Office Brno

View on Map

Get in touch with us

Get the news from the world of law

How we handle personal data is described here.

Omlouváme se, ale pro tuhle stránku neexistuje překlad