Simmons and Simmons’ Clean Energy Tool is an online portal providing access to legal and regulatory overviews for the development of clean energy projects in more than 45 jurisdictions worldwide. Based on the collaboration between global law firm Simmons and Simmons and BDK Advokati, this reliable database now includes comprehensive information regarding the legal framework […]
Serbia’s fiscal state aid schemes have been recurringly designated in the European Commission’s annual Progress Reports on Serbia’s progress in the process of implementing obligations from the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (“SAA”) as incompatible with state aid rules. Article 73 of the SAA required Serbia to compile a comprehensive list of state aid schemes set […]
BDK Advokati has contributed the Serbia chapter to the 2023 edition of Lexology Getting the Deal Through – Data Protection & Privacy (August 2022). The chapter presents the regulatory frameworks under Serbian data protection law which applies since August 2019. The law is modeled after the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Among other topics, the […]
On 7 July 2022, the French supervisory authority (CNIL) imposed a EUR 175,000 fine on Ubeeqo International (Ubeeqo), a car rental service provider. Ubeeqo was found to be collecting customers’ geolocation data constantly and thus infringed the privacy of its customers. CNIL also found that Ubeeqo was storing the data on its customers for an […]
On 1 June 2022, the Slovenian supervisory authority (Information Commissioner) rendered a decision (no. 0612-23/2019/19) ordering a cloud provider (CP) to enter into joint controllership arrangements with its clients. The decision is noteworthy as a rare instance in which a supervisory authority determined that a cloud provider is a joint data controller, rather than a […]
BDK Advokati is proud to report that we are Tier 1 law firm in both Serbia and Montenegro, according to IFLR1000 latest ranking of law firms for Financial and corporate and Project development areas. Our practice in Bosnia & Herzegovina has also received a valuable recognition. The following BDK partners are recognized by IFLR1000 as […]
In 2014, Serbia made a big step forward in aligning its payment services regulations with the EU rules. The Payment Services Act (Zakon o platnim uslugama), a local equivalent of the first Payment Services Directive (“PSD1“), was adopted, opening the doors of the industry to non-bank service providers. The acquis target then moved in early […]
On 17 June, the UK government introduced in the House of Commons the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, a 192-page document containing numerous amendments to the country’s data protection laws. If implemented, the intended changes would make the UK data protection law more attuned to the needs of businesses. In contrast, privacy activists are […]
