16.04.2020

Planned Enactment of SARS-CoV-2-Pharmaceuticals Supply Regulation and Medical Needs Supply Securing Regulation

With this article we would like to inform you about further facilitations concerning the marketing of medical products and personal protective equipment ("PPE"). See also our articles of 1.April 2020…

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16.04.2020

Pre-shift medical examinations for employees driving vehicles who are not employed as official drivers - mandatory or voluntary?

At the end of 2018, amendments were introduced to Federal Law No. 196-FZ dated 10 December 1995 “On Road Traffic Safety” (the Road Traffic Safety Law). The key amendment is that previously the general…

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15.04.2020

Risk of Fraud when Applying for Emergency State Aid in the Corona Crisis

The restrictions on public and economic life due to the coronavirus have led to a large number of companies drastically reducing or even completely suspending their business operations. To prevent the…

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15.04.2020

Strengthening of Investment Controls in Germany and Europe

Over the last two years, investment control rules were strengthened throughout Europe, or for the first time adopted, and a common framework for the assessment of foreign direct investments created by the…

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14.04.2020

Update on the Placing on the Market of Medical Devices and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as (Respiratory) Masks in the Context of the Coronavirus Crisis

In our posts dated 1 April 2020 (LINK) and dated 2 April 2020 (LINK) we informed about the placing on the market of medical devices and personal protective equipment in the context of the corona crisis.…

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13.04.2020

Federal Government intends to make digital works council work possible

Calls for opening the Works Constitution Act (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz - BetrVG) towards digitalisation existed long before the outbreak of the Corona pandemic. Numerous voices so far declared themselves…

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13.04.2020

When day care centres are closed due to coronavirus – what applies to employees taking care of their relatives?

As far as working parents are concerned, the legislature reacted quickly and responded to the closing of schools throughout the country with a revision of s56(1)(a) of the German Protection Against…

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13.04.2020

Commercial leasing law

As reaction to the corona crisis all State Governments - primarily in March 2020 - did take measures for slowing down the spread of the new corona virus on the basis of the Infection Protection Law. In…

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13.04.2020

Corona Crisis: EU State Aid Decisions for Germany

The following article presents the current decisions of the European Commission in EU state aid law during the corona crisis for the German legal sphere. Update of 14  April 2020: ŸCommission…

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08.04.2020

Period of the Retroactive Effect for Restructuring Measures extended – Does this also apply for tax purposes as part of the German Reorganisation Tax Act?

On 27 March 2020, the law for the Mitigation of the Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Civil, Insolvency and Criminal Proceedings Law was announced in the Federal Law Gazette (BGBl. I 2020, page…

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08.04.2020

Corona vs. CSR: Does the Virus also Stop Sustainability?

In our newsletter "Outlook Corporate Social Responsibility 2020" at the beginning of February 2020, we presented our assessment that the new decade would be in the spotlight of sustainability. Two months…

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08.04.2020

COVID-19: Tax Reliefs in Russia

As part of measures to support the economy, the Russian Government issued Decree No. 409 dated April 2, 2020 introducing a tax deferral. You can download the whole document in the area below.

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