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The National Assembly once again passes the Apprenticeship ActThe Apprenticeship Act was reaffirmed in May after concentrated efforts by the Government and opens up the possibility of young people aged…

Comparative price-based advertising could be prohibited – Carrefour CaseIn the case at hand Carrefour ran an extensive television advertising campaign »Carrefour lowest price guarantee« in which it compared the prices…

From October 2017 registration of EU certification marks will be possibleThe new Regulation on the Community trade mark (Regulation), which we reported about in March 2016 , has inter alia…

Enforcements in Croatia concerning unpaid parking ticketsIn the past year, several EU citizens have received writs of execution issued by Croatian notaries public for the recovery of "contractual penalties" with…

Amendments to the Civil Procedure Act bring radical changesThe amendments to the Civil Procedure Act (CPA-E) were adopted on 17 February 2017, the majority of which will apply as of…

Revised rules on service of notice of terminationUnder current ERA-1 rules employers may serve Notice: (i) (as a rule) in person at the employer's premises, (ii) by registered mail with…

European Account Preservation OrderOver the past few years, there has been an increasing number of cases where the creditor and the debtor were residents of the same EU Member State…

General obligation of indiscriminate retention of data is inadmissible – according to the new CJEU rulingThe Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) addressed the question of admissibility of…