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Lithuania: Labour law reforms reduce administrative workload. As of 1 July 2014 an amendment to the Lithuanian labour code applies to reduce administrative costs for employers and leave them bigger scope in labour related matters and agreements with employees. From now on, the employer's obligation to maintain a register of

Lithuania: New Directive on supplementary pension rights is probably the first incentive to overcome free movement-related problems. Free movement of persons and free movement of capital are among the basic freedoms established in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Free movement of persons should be understood as

Czech Republic: New rules for convening the general meeting as of 1 January 2014 The Corporations Act which came into force on 1 January 2014 imposes new requirements on the content of the invitation to the general meetings of limited

Czech Republic: Prohibiting the encumbrance or divestment of assets may improve the position of lenders, but can also cause problems for borrowers In contrast to the legal arrangement that was in force until 31 December 2013, under which negative pledges had only limited applicability and were effective only among the

Czech Republic: The implementation of new procurement directives of the European Parliament and of the Council in Czech law After several years of discussions, new European procurement directives (2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU) were finally adopted at the beginning of 2014. These new rules for the procurement of public contracts must be