European Commission Proposes Directive for Trade Secrets Protection in EU

Later this month, voters in the European Union’s 28 Member States will cast their votes for representatives in the European Parliament.  Regardless of the makeup of the European Parliament following the election, trade secret regulation is one of the many issues that members are likely to take up when the European Parliament reconvenes later this year following the election.

On November 28, 2013, the European Commission announced a proposal for a Directive on trade secrets. If passed by the European Parliament, the Directive will increase the trade secrets protections afforded to companies with operations in the EU and may greatly enhance cross-border certainty and uniformity across Europe.

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