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Max Jerman

Max Jerman is an associate in the Life Sciences Practice group. Max advises clients across a wide range of regulatory and compliance issues in the pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetics sectors, with a focus on EU and Italian regulatory advice. He is a native Italian and Slovenian speaker.

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The Spanish Ministry for Ecologic Transition and Demographic Challenge (“MITECO”) has launched a public consultation on a Draft Royal Decree (“Draft Royal Decree”) that would impose strict energy efficiency and sustainability requirements on data centers in Spain.  The proposed requirements of the Draft Royal Decree are broader and stricter than the requirements on data centers set out in the EU’s Directive (EU) 2023/1791 (the “Energy Efficiency Directive” or “EED”) that the Draft Royal Decree aims to transpose.  Among other things, the Draft Royal Decree imposes requirements to report on the socio-economic impact of data centers; and to comply with the European Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency (“EU CoC”), and with industry best practices.  The Draft Royal Decree is subject to an ongoing public consultation and interested parties may submit their comments until September 15, 2025.

In this blog post we outline the requirements of the Draft Royal Decree that are stricter than those of the EED.Continue Reading Spain Proposes Strict Sustainability Requirements for Data Centers

On October 12, 2023 the Italian Data Protection Authority (“Garante”) published guidance on the use of AI in healthcare services (“Guidance”).  The document builds on principles enshrined in the GPDR, national and EU case-law.  Although the Guidance focuses on Italian national healthcare services, it offers considerations relevant to the use…

Continue Reading Italian Garante Issues Guidance on the Use of AI in the Context of National Healthcare Services