Legal news

Hungary: The aim of the June 2015 amendment is to develop competition awareness and to set up more detailed procedural rules for the GVH (Hungarian Competition Authority) New type of sanction for SMEs The new regulation enables the GVH to issue a warning instead of imposing a fine

Czech Republic: New rules on jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters as of 10 January 2015 The recast Brussels regulation (Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition of judgments in civil and commercial matters recast) introduces a simplified procedure for the recognition and

Germany: Only half a year after implementation of a minimum wage law, documentation requirements for employers are already being relaxed. Until now the documentation requirement was limited to a monthly income of 2.958,00 EUR. As long as this threshold was not exceeded, employers were no longer subject to the strict

Lithuania: Simplified requirements will apply for a newly distinguished “micro-companies’” group. This will cover most Lithuanian companies. A company will be treated as a micro-company if at least two years in a row it does not exceed at least two of the following criteria: Property value in the balance

Estonia: Building Code gathers building regulation into one place. Estonia‘s new Building Code enters into force on July 1, 2015. The Code gathers building regulation, previously scattered across different laws, into one place. Codifying building law has been a long process: work started in 2008 and the