The return of the Italian mandatory mediation procedure
On 24 October 2012, the Italian Constitutional Court declared invalid the provision of Legislative Decree n. 28 dated 4 March 2010 which had implemented the mandatory mediation procedure for the resolution […]
EU to review regime for personal data transfers to the US
The Safe-Harbour provision, in place since the early years of the tech boom in the late 1990s, allows US companies to satisfy EU rules by signing up to a self-reporting […]
A landmark in a long battle over European Union privacy laws
Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-131/12 Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González considers that search engine service providers are not responsible, […]
ICC releases revised International Code of Direct Selling
Since 1937, when the first Code of Advertising Practice was issued, ICC has produced, and successively revised, global sets of ethical rules, covering all main marketing disciplines. The ICC Code […]
UNCITRAL publishes its endorsement of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2010
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has published the Report on its forty-fifth session (25 June – 6 July 2012) at which it decided to endorse the […]
Where a Member State grants national companies the right to convert, the same right must also be granted to companies incorporated in another Member State
Hungarian law authorises Hungarian companies to convert, but does not allow a company governed by the law of another Member State to convert to a Hungarian company. The Italian company […]