BDK Advokati has contributed the Serbia chapter to the 2024 edition of Lexology Getting the Deal Through – Data Protection & Privacy (July 2023). The chapter presents the regulatory frameworks under Serbian data protection law, which has been in effect since August 2019. The law is modelled after the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Partner […]
The National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia has adopted amendments to the Financial Support to Families with Children Act to expand the rights of parents to take leave from work to care for their children. This action is in line with the country’s population policy, which aims to boost population growth. This Newsletter sets […]
We are pleased to have served as legal counsel to NLB Slovenia and NLB Montenegro on a €24 million loan agreement signed with Israeli BIG CEE. This financing is in connection with their acquisition of the “Capital Plaza” business and residential complex in Podgorica, Montenegro. BDK Advokati’s team on this transaction has been led by […]
BDK Advokati advised Spanish Grupo Hotusa on the long-term lease of the Queen of Montenegro hotel in Bečići, Montenegro. We are pleased to have contributed to securing a lease of this exceptional property for Grupo Hotusa. Our transactional team led by senior partner Luka Popović assisted with the transaction documents, provided corporate law advice, and helped obtained necessary licenses […]
The Serbian parliament has adopted the amendments to the Foreigners Act and Employment of Foreigners Act, which aim to liberalize the conditions for the entry of foreigners into Serbia and shorten the procedures for obtaining residence and work permits. With tax incentives already in place for digital nomads, the new rules easing the administrative conditions […]
The recent decision by the Amsterdam Court of Appeals, against Uber, underscores the significance of meaningful human involvement in automated decision-making. The judgment, dated 4 April 2023, provides specifics on what a genuine human involvement should include, in order to ensure lawfulness of the processing. Background Uber is an international transportation company that offers online […]
Summary Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) continues to be categorized as a hardcore restriction according to the recently updated Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER). However, under the latest ruling of the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) in Super Bock, the competition authorities are not entitled to presume that RPM is a “by object” restriction under Article […]
On 12 July 2023, the Regulation 2022/2560 of the European Parliament and of the Council on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market (known as Foreign Subsidies Regulation or FSR), adopted on 28 November 2022, came into effect. Under the FSR, the European Commission (“Commission“) is competent to review concentrations that exceed specified monetary thresholds for […]
An EU regulation overflowing to Serbian market The European Union’s deforestation-free regulation (“Deforestation Regulation“) entered into force on 29 June 2023. This is the latest EU legislative intervention in trade in the attempt to combat deforestation and forest degradation globally. The Deforestation Regulation constitutes the newest addition to the legislative efforts within the EU to […]
The Belgian supervisory authority (APD) recently decided that the information about teachers’ participation in a strike is not a special category of data, because it does not amount to data about trade union membership. In the same decision 49/2023, dated 28 April 2023, the APD explained that, when the legal basis for the processing of […]
