On February 28, 2020, it has been approved the Law no. 7, which converted the Law Decree no. 161 of 30 December 2019 with amendments to the regulation of tapping of private conversations and communications.
The category of savings shareholders and its representative of an acquired company shall not suffer loss, as a result of a merger, the entitlement to exercise its rights which arose prior to the merger or as a result of it.
On March 24, 2020, the CIO President, Thomas Bach, officially announced that, in view of the COVID-19 emergency, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be deferred by 12 months. Among the many consequences, economic and social, that this will have, there is also the uncertainty about the elections of the CONI’S and Italian Sports Federations’ Presidents and Boards.
The Supreme Court, with its ordinance n. 27482 of 28 October 2019, stated that real estate agents are not entitled to the commission if they do not inform a potential buyer about the existence of a loan on the property under negotiation, in violation requirements that the law imposes.
In light of the approval, of the “Shared Protocol for the regulation of measures to combat and contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the workplace” (the “Protocol”) on March 14, 2020, we deem necessary to update our previous newsletter having as object the relationship between the autonomous initiatives of employers in order to manage the emergency related to the spread of the COVID-19 virus (“Coronavirus”) and the legislation on the protection of personal data.
The measures adopted at national and global level for the containment of the Coronavirus might have a strong (mostly negative) impact on the economy; it is possible that such decision might causeng delays in performance of Italian companies.
It is not certain that SARS CoV-2 can automatically be considered a force majeure event: the force majeure event must always be verified on case-by-case basis, by means of a judicial assessment that ascertains its actual impact on the contractual relationship.
The Italian Government regulated the issue of transport and package tour contracts, providing in certain circumstances related to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, the reimbursement of the price due to the impossibility to provide the service, pursuant to art. 1463 of the Italian Civil Code.
With the Order no. 521 of 15 January 2020, the Supreme Court has once again ruled about the
The company Eni Gas e Luce has received from the Italian Data Protection Authority an administrative sanction of € 8,500,000.00 for unwanted telemarketing activities and unlawful management of contact data used for marketing campaigns. The company was sanctioned for having made advertising calls without the consent of the data subjects, for not having adopted adequate technical and organizational measures to implement the expressions of will of the data subjects and for having kept the data of the data subjects for a longer period than the necessary period to pursue the purposes. This is what emerged from the investigations of the Guarantor, which began following some reports received by the Authority during 2018 and 2019.
The Court of Cassation has recently stated that, according to the Industrial Property Code, signs which, at the time of application, are similar to those already registered in a State by others, may not be registered as a trademark if as such the similarity or identity between the goods or services are such to create confusion for the consumers, consequently leading to an association between the two signs.,
A corporate joint venture is a cooperation between two or more companies, aimed at achieving strategic objectives for development, through the sharing of mutual skills, resources and knowledge.
These characteristics are common to various forms of corporate implementation and management schemes, whose choice is influenced and suggested by the specific nature of the business the proposed collaboration relates to.
