Author: Robert Neruda In late April, the Czech NCA, the Office for the Protection of Competition (“NCA”) introduced a new policy for setting fines for a breach of the Competition...
Author: Robert Neruda In late April, the Czech NCA, the Office for the Protection of Competition (“NCA”) introduced a new policy for setting fines for a breach of the Competition...
The National Council of the Slovak Republic has adopted a very controversial bill on the special levy on retail chains proposed by the coalition deputy members, even despite the President’s previous...
1. Introduction On 1 December 2017, it will be one year after a fundamental amendment to the Act on Pharmaceuticals1 (the “Act”) became effective. One of its main goals was...
An amendment to Act No. 90/2012 Sb., on Companies and Cooperatives (Act on Business Corporations), as amended (“Act”) came into effect on 14 January 2017. The amendment has re-introduced so-called...
In response to the current regulation on mandatory electronic prescriptions, the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic drafted an amendment1 to the Czech Act on Medicines2 . The amendment...
The protection of personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in the field of clinical trials is an extensively-discussed topic, even more so in the absence of a...
In practice cases are encountered in which an entitled person under a permit issued pursuant to the Building Code – typically a zoning decision or a building permit (“permits”) –...
Authors: Dušan Sedláček, Petr Sprinz, René Cienciala Yesterday, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) ruled that investor-state arbitration clauses in bilateral investment treaties concluded between EU Member...
Authors: Robert Neruda, Juraj Steinecker, Tomáš Varšo On 25 September 2018, the European Commission (“Commission”) published a press release that it sent a statement of objections to Slovak rail company...
Authors: Robert Neruda, Ivo Šimeček, Martin Rott The Directive on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain has been adopted recently. For a long...
The largest Czech-Slovak law firm HAVEL & PARTNERS received in 12th year of the Law Firm of the Year competition an award for Best Client Services, and also won first...
The representatives of EU Member States signed a joint declaration on 15 January 2019 (“Declaration”) on the legal consequences of the judgement of the Court of Justice of the European...