BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF PARTNER
Timelex is a boutique law firm based in Brussels, specialised in information and technology law in the broadest sense, including cybersecurity, data protection, IP law, the AI Act, data and information management, and other legal and ethics aspects of digital innovation. Its activities cover all legal issues encountered in the creation, management and exploitation of information and technology, in all of its diverse forms.
Timelex is composed of an international team from 8 jurisdictions with legal and technical academic background and has been involved in more than one hundred EU level consulting and research projects.
Timelex as an independent firm was founded in 2007, and many of its lawyers started their career in international law firms, multinational companies, and leading academic institutions. The team is internationally recognised, being both a Legal 500 Top Tier firm in Information Technology, and a Chambers Europe Recommended Firm for TMT – Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Data Protection and Entertainment. Timelex has a proven track record in every aspect of information and technology law, from an academic, business and policy perspective.
At Timelex, all legal facets of the modern information society are our area of expertise, which we continuously cultivate by assisting policy makers, public and private organizations with all their legal problems in this area.
Role in the project
In ENDURANCE, we will provide guidance regarding ethics and legal aspects, both for the project’s services and solutions in general, as well as their use in the pilots specifically.
The legal work will mainly focus on ensuring compliance with EU level horizontal frameworks (Critical Entities Resilience Directive, Network Information Security Directive 2, and GDPR) as well as sector specific frameworks, and deriving specific legal and ethics requirements and compliance guidelines along with an evaluation/assessment methodology.
The ethics work will mainly focus on data protection and fundamental rights aspects, but will also address other ethical issue that may arise because essential services are concerned (for instance because crisis response mechanisms trigger new risks or dangers, e.g. by disconnecting specific people from essential infrastructure, or by prioritizing certain services – essentially creating situations where the “trolley problem” is relevant, and some people may ‘lose’ compared to others).
Timelex will monitor the implementation of the guidelines during the development process and provide for an initial and final assessment.