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The state of emergency and its implications in the labor field
In the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, both of the employer and employee have to know their rights and obligations and also the measures that have to be taken in order to protect the employees and t …
Is there a direct connection between an effective compliance and anti-bribery programme and the criminal liability of a legal entity?
In the context of doing business in a global environment, more and more companies active in Romania become increasingly interested in fostering a culture of corporate governance and compliance. …
Lobby- whereto?
We are in a period when the lobby activity becomes increasingly important, considering also the Emergency Ordinance project regarding the transparency in lobbying activities and representation of inte …
WhatsApp in GDPR context
GDPR – the General Data Protection Regulation is an issue which at least in the last half a year started to be very important in Romania and across over Europe. But have you ever thought what exactly …
GDPR a new challenge
During the last months it appears that the biggest concern of the companies is the EU Regulation 2016/679 issued by the European Parliament and European Council on 27 April 2016 on the protection of n …
The Register of beneficial owners – where are we going?
The notion of “beneficial ownership” will be introduced in Romanian legislation by the Law on money-laundering and terrorist financing (the “Law”), which will implement the single mechanism for the pr …
Rights of Passengers of Air Transportation, in Case of Loss or Deterioration of the Luggage, Refusal to Board, Delay and Annulment of Booked Flights
In nowadays society, the number of persons travelling by airplane raised significantly. In this situation, normally the number of flights rose, but this category of transportation was not indemnified …
Data Privacy Aspects in the workplace – Processing of employee data and the assessment of proportionality
On 8 June 2017 the Working Party established under Article 29 of Directive 95/46/EC (“WP29”, being an independent European advisory body on data protection and privacy) published a revised opinion (th …
Depoliticisation or Decriminalisation? – A foreign lawyer looks at the Romanian offence of “Abuse of office”
Romania has now been a member of the EU for ten years and, notwithstanding that its progress in preventing corruption is still being monitored by the EU, I was initially surprised to hear that propose …
Do you know how Brexit will affect your business’s ownership of European Union intellectual property rights?
Even with the little which we know about how Brexit will look and how it will happen, we certainly know that apart from the political social and economic environment which will be affected by Brexit, …