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Legal Status - SEPTEMBER 2021

28 SEP 2021

Energy: The Ministry for Ecological Transition announces a new 3.300 MW wind and photovoltaic auction in October

Employment: Is the Equality Plan mandatory? Quantification of the number of employees and possible penalties

Media: Are users of online platforms solely responsible for the content they upload?

Corporate: Implementation of the Startups Law

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Eight key points of the electricity reform of September 2021 - Royal Decree-Law 17/2021

21 SEP 2021

Energy

Faced with the rise in the price of electricity in the Spanish market, the government has approved a series of measures aimed at mitigating the effects of prices on consumers and reducing their monthly bills by up to 22% over the remainder of the year. The September 2021 electricity reform comes into ...

News

Supreme Court ruling on the nullity of a franchise agreement when the franchiser imposes a fixed price for the product.

16 SEP 2021

Disputes

The Supreme Court has issued Ruling No. 587/2021 dated July 28, 2021, which analyses and assesses a case of nullity of a franchise contract due to the imposition of a fixed price by the franchiser in relation to the products, which is considered a restrictive conduct of competition. The judgement cites precedents of ...

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Connected Vehicles and Data Protection

13 SEP 2021

Intellectual Property

Following a public consultation procedure, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published last March the final version of its Guidelines on processing personal data in the context of connected vehicles and mobility related applications (hereinafter the “Guidelines”). One of the objectives of the EDPB is to clarify the terms of Euro...

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Draft Bill for the Reform of the Insolvency Law

06 SEP 2021

Disputes

The Draft Bill for the Reform of the Insolvency Law, drafted by the Ministry of Justice, was published in July this year. The purpose of this Draft Bill is to adapt the insolvency law to the European Directive 2019/1023 on restructuring and insolvency. Although it is a Preliminary Draft, that is, ...

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New office in Madrid

23 JUL 2021

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Legal Status - JULY 2021

22 JUL 2021

Corporate: Remote General Meetings. The new regulation of the Spanish Companies Act (Ley de Sociedades de Capital) included by Law 5/2021, of April 12.

Disputes: Liability of the director of a company to the Public Administrations.

Tax: New developments in the Business Activity Tax for energy traders: the definitive solution?.

News

Royal Decree-Law 12/2021, of 24 June adopting urgent measures in the field of energy taxation and energy generation, and on the regulation fee management and the water rate, has been published.

06 JUL 2021

Energy

On 25 June 2021, the BOE published Royal Decree-Law 12/2021, of 24 June, adopting urgent measures in the field of energy taxation and energy generation, and on the regulation fee management and the water rate (hereinafter, the “RD-L 12/2021”), which promotes temporary and immediate measures to reduce consumers’ electricity bills. The main tax changes introduced in RD-...

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Legal Status - JUNE 2021

23 JUN 2021

Employment: International remote working: reflection on the possible consequences of remote working in Spain.

Media: Non-Fungible Tokens and Copyright.

Energy: Law 7/2021 of 20 May on climate change and energy transition.

News

Supreme Court ruling on the confrontation between the right to honour and freedom of expression.

01 JUN 2021

Disputes

On 20 April 2021, the Supreme Court of Spain handed down judgment no. 222/2021, upholding the appeal and declaring that a series of opinions published by a lawyer in a blog and on Twitter did not violate the right to honour of the plaintiff companies because it is his freedom of expression that ...