Termination by employer for employee’s breach of work duty or work discipline is the most common cause of employment termination and the one that often gives rise to challenges. Our senior associate Marija Gligorević held last week a workshop for in-house counsels and HRs, addressing a number of practical aspects of the termination process that […]
BDK Advokati contributed to the 2024 edition of the Chambers’ Global Practice Guide on Gaming Law. The Montenegrin chapter was authored by Luka Popović, senior partner, and Milana Savović, junior associate. The chapter includes notable regulatory updates introduced during 2024, such as stricter technical requirements and updated guidelines for online gambling platforms It also details […]
In the context of the Montenegro’s improved EU accession prospects, the country’s Agency for Protection of Competition (“Agency“) has stepped up its enforcement efforts. Most recently, in a decision adopted on 18 November 2024, the Agency established that the three telecom companies in Montenegro, Crnogorski Telekom AD Podgorica (part of Deutsche Telecom Group) (“Crnogorski Telekom“), […]
The Supreme Administrative Court of Poland has recently ruled that a school’s processing of children’s fingerprint data, for the purpose of identifying them at the canteen entrance and verifying their payment for the meals, did not violate the GDPR. The judgement offers persuasive, but controversial arguments for its conclusion that the school’s processing was in […]
Montenegro has recently amended the Copyright and Related Rights Act (“Copyright Act“). The amended law aims to align domestic legislation with EU Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (“DSM Directive“) and Directive 2019/789 laying down rules on the exercise of copyright and related rights applicable to certain online transmissions of broadcasting organisations […]
The European Union has decided that after nearly 40 years, the moment has arrived to repeal the Product Liability Directive and replace it with a revised version. The EU Council adopted one on 10 October 2024. The new directive was published in the Official Gazette of the European Union on 18 November (“New PLD“). In […]
On 20 November 2024, one day after the Montenegrin parliament adopted a new Cybersecurity Act, our senior partner Bogdan Ivanišević and associate Anja Gligorević held a seminar in Podgorica about the obligations for companies stemming from the Act. The seminar was co-organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Montenegro and BDK Advokati. The event […]
BDK Advokati has contributed the Serbia chapter to the 2025 edition of Lexology Panoramic – Data Protection & Privacy (July 2024). The chapter presents the regulatory framework under Serbian data protection law, which has been in effect since August 2019. The law is modelled after the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Senior partner Bogdan Ivanišević and attorney […]
On 5 November 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR“) issued a judgment in the joint case of Stefanović and Banković v. Serbia. The case joined two separate applications filed in April 2016, concerning the same issue. Namely, in both cases the Constitutional Court had quashed final and binding civil court judgments upon constitutional […]
